Vote For Manmohan

[Azaad]

Prabhjot Singh

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 10

Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee chief Paramjit Singh Sarna has urged SAD MPs to shun petty party politics and enhance their global image as nationalists by supporting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s nuclear deal with the USA.

It is a time for the Akalis in general and the Sikhs in particular to rally behind an honest and committed Dr Manmohan Singh whose elevation as Prime Minister had given the community respectability worldwide.

Though the present ruling group in the DSGMC, led by Sarna brothers, has been known for its tilt towards the Congress, the letter of Paramjit Singh Sarna appreciating SAD’s policies and programmes has come as a pleasant surprise to SAD workers. For a long time, Sarna-led group had confronted Parkash Singh Badal not only in the Delhi gurdwara politics but also in the Panthic affairs.

In a letter addressed to all SAD MPs, Paramjit Singh Sarna, reminded the SAD of unfortunate events that the Sikh community had faced in 1980s. “These incidents culminated into Operation Bluestar. The anti-Sikh riots of 1984 presented them in a light completely unknown to them. The patriotism of Sikhs was put under a scanner and the community remained at the receiving end in India and abroad for quite sometime. However, the national forces asserted after sometime and the opinion makers loudly admitted that the Sikhs had been wronged,” writes Sarna in his letter.

He says: “The Shiromani Akali Dal always stands firm for the respectability and prestige of the Panth. A similar situation had arisen at the time of nomination of Giani Zail Singh as presidential candidate by the Congress. Even at that time the SAD played a very constructive, rather commendable role in the national interest in general and Panthic interest in particular by supporting his candidature.”

Sarna has also cautioned the Akalis against those “anti-national forces that are always active in damaging the national and minority interests to establish their so-called nationality to achieve their own vested interests. In the present national crisis, nationalist forces have an opportunity to prove their national, secular and Panthic ideology by supporting the most learned, honest and dedicated visionary statesman, Dr Manmohan Singh, who has established Sikh identity globally. The proposed nuclear deal with the US is beyond any doubt in the larger interest of the country. All of us as a minority community should think and support him to enhance the image of the Sikh community in India and abroad, says Sarna.

The DSGMC chief also reminds Akalis that the Shiv Sena, in spite of being a constituent of the NDA, openly supported Pratibha Patil in the last presidential elections.

“I take this opportunity to appeal to you to consider this very important fact by rising above the party politics by thinking as a national-secular Sikh and extending support to Dr Manmohan Singh in Parliament,” adds Sarna.

N-deal: ‘Cong ignored regional parties’ Sarbjit Dhaliwal

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 10

Regional parties have a grudge against the Congress-led UPA government for not taking them into confidence on the nuclear-deal issue.

Expressing his views, senior Akali leader and state cooperation minister Kanwaljit Singh said the UPA did not even once raise the issue with the regional parties such as the SAD, which had been taking stand on issues of national importance.

“The Congress leadership discussed the issue with the Left parties several times. A joint working group was also set up. Several meetings were held. But the Congress did not think it appropriate to hold meetings with the leaders of regional parties to take them into confidence on the issue,” said Capt Kanwaljit Singh.

He said officially, his party had not information with regard to the deal.

“We don’t know what the deal is, how it is in the interest or against the country,” said the minister. “Whatever we know about the deal is all that has come to us through print and electronic media.”

He said the Congress deputed senior officers to brief the Samajwadi leaders on the deal. Prime Minister himself briefed the SP leaders and the PMO immediately issued clarifications on the questions asked by the SP about the deal. But, the Congress leadership did not bother to brief other regional parties. He said the regional parties and its leaders were important players in the country’s politics and they could not be ignored while taking important decisions with regard to the foreign policy and also on the issues such as WTO, etc.

Capt Kanwaljit Singh said at the moment, the SAD would not support the UPA government in Parliament on the deal.

“Our party would chalk out its strategy on the deal at a meeting of its core group on July 15,” he said. “We would take a decision that would be in our best political interest.”

As the SAD has eight MPs in the Lok Sabha, its political stand vis-à-vis the nuclear deal and in parliament is being keenly watched by the leadership of national parties. In fact, in emerging political situation at the national level, the SAD can play a decisive role in dislodging or saving the Manmohan Singh government.

[sahib_bindra]

long live s.paramjit singh sarna

[apne]

Sarna is a joke! His pants are longer than his torso :lol:

There is an old adjective used in punjab for Akalis since the time of Maharaja Ranjit Singh; akali akalon khali :D

SAD (B) is going with facist BJP, against manmohan singh.

[er_gurjot]

akali akalon khali

lol.. nyways truth..

[SaRpAnCh]

Sarna is a joke! His pants are longer than his torso :lol:

There is an old adjective used in punjab for Akalis since the time of Maharaja Ranjit Singh; akali akalon khali :D

SAD (B) is going with facist BJP, against manmohan singh.

LMAO at the pent jokee,he looks like one those papeh of Southall Broadway who sell pirate DVDs

[Azaad]

Sarna is a joke! His pants are longer than his torso :lol:

There is an old adjective used in punjab for Akalis since the time of Maharaja Ranjit Singh; akali akalon khali :D

SAD (B) is going with facist BJP, against manmohan singh.

LMAO at the pent jokee,he looks like one those papeh of Southall Broadway who sell pirate DVDs

don't cuss those papeh..they're my regular source of bollywood dvds!!! LMAO

[SAD(A)]

ਸਰਨਾ ਦਾ ਬਿਆਨ ਸਿੱਖ ਕੌਮ ਨੂੰ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਦ ਜੂਲ ਹਠ ਦਣ ਦੀ ਕੋਸ਼ਿਸ਼-ਭਾਈ ਰਾਮ ਸਿੰਘ

ਜ¦ਧਰ, 13 ਜੁਲਾਈ (ਅ. ਬ.)-ਦਿੱਲੀ ਸਿੱਖ ਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾ ਕਮਟੀ ਦ ਪ੍ਰਧਾਨ ਸ: ਪਰਮਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਰਨਾ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਜਥਦਾਰ ਜੋਗਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਵਦਾਂਤੀ ਨੂੰ ਪ੍ਰਧਾਨ ਮੰਤਰੀ ਡਾ: ਮਨਮੋਹਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਦ ਹੱਕ ਵਿਚ 'ਹੁਕਮਨਾਮਾ' ਜਾਰੀ ਕਰਨ ਦੀ ਅਪੀਲ ਕਰਕ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਅਕਾਲ ਤਖ਼ਤ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਰਾਹੀਂ ਸਿੱਖ ਕੌਮ ਨੂੰ 'ਕਾਂਗਰਸ' ਦ ਜੂਲ ਥੱਲ ਦਣ ਦੀ ਕੋਝੀ ਸਾਜ਼ਿਸ਼ ਕੀਤੀ ਹੈ। ਸ਼੍ਰੋਮਣੀ ਅਕਾਲੀ ਦਲ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਸਰ ਦ ਮੁੱਖ ਬੁਲਾਰ ਭਾਈ ਰਾਮ ਸਿੰਘ ਨ ਇਥ ਜਾਰੀ ਇਕ ਬਿਆਨ ਵਿਚ ਕਿਹਾ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਪ੍ਰਧਾਨ ਮੰਤਰੀ ਸ: ਮਨਮੋਹਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਦੀ ਨਿੱਜੀ ਸ਼ਖਸੀਅਤ, ਲਿਆਕਤ ਅਤ ਦਿਆਨਤਦਾਰੀ ਬਾਰ ਕਿਸ ਨੂੰ ਕੋਈ ਸ਼ੱਕ ਨਹੀਂ ਹੈ ਪਰ ਸਿੱਖ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਰਿਸ਼ਤ ਵਿਚ ਸਿੱਖਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਕੀਤੀਆਂ ਵਧੀਕੀਆਂ ਅਤ ਇਨਸਾਫ ਨਾ ਮਿਲਣਾ ਸਿੱਖ ਕੌਮ ਨੂੰ ਕਿਸ ਵੀ ਕੀਮਤ 'ਤ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਦ ਨਾਲ ਨਹੀਂ ਖੜ�ਾ ਕਰ ਸਕਦੀ ਪਰ ਇਸ ਦਾ ਇਹ ਬਿਲਕੁਲ ਅਰਥ ਨਹੀਂ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਸਿੱਖ ਫਿਰਕਾਪ੍ਰਸਤੀ ਹਿੰਦੂਵਾਦ ਦੀ ਦੂਜੀ ਧਿਰ ਭਾਜਪਾ ਦੀ ਹਮਾਇਤ ਕਰ ਸਕਦ ਹਨ।

Manmohan Singh represented india in UN before becoming PM. In the UN when he was asked about the Genocide of Sikhs in Punjab, he said there is nothing going on there.

Shame on Sarna for asking Sikhs to support such a person

Prabhjot Singh

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 10

Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee chief Paramjit Singh Sarna has urged SAD MPs to shun petty party politics and enhance their global image as nationalists by supporting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's nuclear deal with the USA.

It is a time for the Akalis in general and the Sikhs in particular to rally behind an honest and committed Dr Manmohan Singh whose elevation as Prime Minister had given the community respectability worldwide.

Though the present ruling group in the DSGMC, led by Sarna brothers, has been known for its tilt towards the Congress, the letter of Paramjit Singh Sarna appreciating SAD's policies and programmes has come as a pleasant surprise to SAD workers. For a long time, Sarna-led group had confronted Parkash Singh Badal not only in the Delhi gurdwara politics but also in the Panthic affairs.

In a letter addressed to all SAD MPs, Paramjit Singh Sarna, reminded the SAD of unfortunate events that the Sikh community had faced in 1980s. "These incidents culminated into Operation Bluestar. The anti-Sikh riots of 1984 presented them in a light completely unknown to them. The patriotism of Sikhs was put under a scanner and the community remained at the receiving end in India and abroad for quite sometime. However, the national forces asserted after sometime and the opinion makers loudly admitted that the Sikhs had been wronged," writes Sarna in his letter.

He says: "The Shiromani Akali Dal always stands firm for the respectability and prestige of the Panth. A similar situation had arisen at the time of nomination of Giani Zail Singh as presidential candidate by the Congress. Even at that time the SAD played a very constructive, rather commendable role in the national interest in general and Panthic interest in particular by supporting his candidature."

Sarna has also cautioned the Akalis against those "anti-national forces that are always active in damaging the national and minority interests to establish their so-called nationality to achieve their own vested interests. In the present national crisis, nationalist forces have an opportunity to prove their national, secular and Panthic ideology by supporting the most learned, honest and dedicated visionary statesman, Dr Manmohan Singh, who has established Sikh identity globally. The proposed nuclear deal with the US is beyond any doubt in the larger interest of the country. All of us as a minority community should think and support him to enhance the image of the Sikh community in India and abroad, says Sarna.

The DSGMC chief also reminds Akalis that the Shiv Sena, in spite of being a constituent of the NDA, openly supported Pratibha Patil in the last presidential elections.

"I take this opportunity to appeal to you to consider this very important fact by rising above the party politics by thinking as a national-secular Sikh and extending support to Dr Manmohan Singh in Parliament," adds Sarna.

N-deal: 'Cong ignored regional parties' Sarbjit Dhaliwal

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 10

Regional parties have a grudge against the Congress-led UPA government for not taking them into confidence on the nuclear-deal issue.

Expressing his views, senior Akali leader and state cooperation minister Kanwaljit Singh said the UPA did not even once raise the issue with the regional parties such as the SAD, which had been taking stand on issues of national importance.

"The Congress leadership discussed the issue with the Left parties several times. A joint working group was also set up. Several meetings were held. But the Congress did not think it appropriate to hold meetings with the leaders of regional parties to take them into confidence on the issue," said Capt Kanwaljit Singh.

He said officially, his party had not information with regard to the deal.

"We don't know what the deal is, how it is in the interest or against the country," said the minister. "Whatever we know about the deal is all that has come to us through print and electronic media."

He said the Congress deputed senior officers to brief the Samajwadi leaders on the deal. Prime Minister himself briefed the SP leaders and the PMO immediately issued clarifications on the questions asked by the SP about the deal. But, the Congress leadership did not bother to brief other regional parties. He said the regional parties and its leaders were important players in the country's politics and they could not be ignored while taking important decisions with regard to the foreign policy and also on the issues such as WTO, etc.

Capt Kanwaljit Singh said at the moment, the SAD would not support the UPA government in Parliament on the deal.

"Our party would chalk out its strategy on the deal at a meeting of its core group on July 15," he said. "We would take a decision that would be in our best political interest."

As the SAD has eight MPs in the Lok Sabha, its political stand vis-à-vis the nuclear deal and in parliament is being keenly watched by the leadership of national parties. In fact, in emerging political situation at the national level, the SAD can play a decisive role in dislodging or saving the Manmohan Singh government.

Statement to the Chandigarh Press Corp on the 123 Agreement, by Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar)

The Sikhs are an independent, separate and sui generis sovereign, pluralistic and democratic nationality. To say that because there's an Indian Prime Minister who is a Sikh, we Sikhs are bound by his decision on foreign and nuclear policy is an insult to our nationhood. It is churlish, na�ve, perverted and wooly headed too.

This Sikh Prime Minister of India has never consulted us Sikh's on this sensitive issue. Then how can we support him? Nazi Germany installed Quisling, a Norwegian in Norway as its dictator and Marshal Philippe Pētain a French "patriot" in the same capacity in France. We ask did the Norwegians and French support these toadies of the Nazi regime?

According to our party the 123 Agreement is flawed as India in keeping within the provisions of its own Constitution, Article 51, has not signed the N.P.T., C.T.B.T. and the forthcoming F.M.C.T. India has kept its military nuclear reactors outside the inspection and scrutiny of IAEA and National Security Adviser Mr. Narayanan has said mindless of the Hyde Act, India can make more nuclear blasts. India has reserved its rights before the IAEA to stockpile nuclear fuel reserves in the likelihood of sanctions against it. As such it has cocked a snook at these world bodies and America. This defies reason and logic.

What is national interest?

The Sikh's being a separate nation we do not understand what is the national interest? The former Soviet Union touted its national interest but did it represent the nations that broke away from the Soviet empire? The Austro-Hungarian Empire talked of its interests but did it represent the national interest of its components? Similar was the case of the British Empire. It is exactly the same with Hindutva India. The 123 Agreement made in the Hindu national interest, certainly goes against the Sikh national interest. A stronger nuclear Hindutva Indian nation would mean the with drawl of India's

military from the Chinese and Pakistan borders and its use internally to crush minority dissent and genocide of the Sikh peoples. The Panjab lies on the Indo-Pak border and is the homeland of the Sikhs who are wedged between two historic inimical civilizations - Hindu India and Islamic Pakistan. Any nuclear conflagration between the two would mean the total annihilation of the Sikh race, decimated as it is by the worst ethnic cleansing in 1947 and the its genocide since 1984.

Our party is not clear how much nuclear civil energy the Sikhs would receive if the 123 Agreement goes through. What would happen to the nuclear waste? As it is Panjab has no controls for its conventional waste and its rivers are running foul, leading to the worst contagious fatal diseases.

Our party would not mind the 123 Agreement if India denuclearizes, signs the N.P.T., CTBT and proposed F.M.C.T. and puts all its reactors under perpetual IAEA and NSG controls, administration, management and proprietorial custody as any foreign embassy under the Geneva Convention. All reactors must be for civil nuclear energy only.

As such our party negates the 123 Agreement in the Sikh national interest and does not support the argument of the right wing ultra nationalist parties the Congress and the BJP, both responsible for the genocide of the Sikh race. We appeal to the American Congress, IAEA and NSG not to support the lame-duck Bush Administration on this issue as it would lead to further nuclear proliferation. The Sikh policy stands for a nuclear weapon free South Asia and supports peace. The Scandinavian countries, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, New Zealand, Japan and some other countries which consider nuclear proliferation an anathema are requested to help out the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) to keep peace in this region. We applaud the role of Australian Prime Minister Mr. Kevin Rudd and his Foreign Minister Mr. Stephen Smith, both world statesmen, who have boldly condemned the 123 Agreement. We also appreciate the minds of the possible and probable Presidents of America Mr. Obama and Mr. Macaine, respectively in having second thoughts on this proposal, which if passed will leave no room to stop other countries who have not signed the N.P.T and C.T.B.T. from becoming nuclear states.

Simranjit Singh Mann,

President,

Shiromani Akali Dal ( Amritsar).

[sahib_bindra]

first of all that is the correct way of wearing a pant....not like our generation who wear it under our bund....and MANN can jus speak backwaas.....he can jus write letters...and blabber...the BJP HAS PAID MANN 20 CRORES NOT TO VOTE FOR THE NUCLEAR DEAL.....

[sahib_bindra]

and what what does the deal have to do with sikh genocide...i dont understand ...y mann has to bring sikhism into the nuclear deal.....how does it connect with the electricty problems to be faced by india in next 10 years....y does mann only drag our religion into everything....mr sarna has appealed to vote for manmohan...beacuse he has given a new dimension of sikh idenity in india....and if we dont vote for our people and let people like mann get away with cheap party politics........then

SIKH AUR DESH VIRODHI KAISA HO?

SIMRANJEET SINGH MANN JAISA HO!

[nanosecond]

.the BJP HAS PAID MANN 20 CRORES NOT TO VOTE FOR THE NUCLEAR DEAL.....

haha what a joke?

Mann doesnt even has an MP in parliament , why should BJP pay him? And he is not a sell out like Sarna or Badal.