Statement To The Chandigarh Press Corp On The 123 Agreement, By Shiromani Akali Dal (amritsar)

[SAD(A)]

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).

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[SaRpAnCh]

As always Simranjeet Singh Mann says it how it is Long Live SS,Mann - Keep exposing the realities of Hindutva we stand with you in solidarity :nishaan_sahib_right:

[caveman]

As always Simranjeet Singh Mann says it how it is Long Live SS,Mann - Keep exposing the realities of Hindutva we stand with you in solidarity :nishaan_sahib_right:

mann is wikdddddd

[Raju]

Does he have any MPs ?

[spamindersingh]

He has nothing, no MLA, No MP's, No real support base. He plays the Khalistan card on a regular basis but even then he wins no new fans as the people in Punjab know his true intentions and about his past.

The guy used to hob nob with mahan Gursikhs and when they would become shaheed he would not even bother visiting the families of these Gursikhs.

Let alone doing anything for these shaheed, he wanted to use his MP fund to build a library in honour of Jinnah (father of Pakistan) in Sangrur.

[er_gurjot]

i think mann is only sikh leader who speaks bout sikh rights in lok sabha.. unlike dhindsa and badal jr who are mock spectators............. mann is the man!!