The Swami And The Sant

[Harvinder singh Babbar]

The swami and the sant (bhindranwale)

june 6 will be remembered as a landmark in modern Indian history. On that date, the Indian armed forces took control of the golden temple complex after destroying the Akal takht and killing sant jarnail singh bhindranwale. The nation on the whole, expressed relief. A few of us, however, expressed sorrow and expressed sorrow and felt that operation bluestar, as the action was called, was a horrible blunder which would aggravate problem of terrorism, not contain it. Since then, the problem has indeed been aggravated. New crusaders for the Sikhs have no surfaced.

to put the record straight, Ram Jethmalani – the new Galahad – was not one of those who had opposed operation bluestar. Today he may pose at a defender of the underdog. But on june 6 1984, he expressed satisfaction with the governments actions.

This is said not, ofcourse, to defend the BJP in sackin jethmalani. The BJP is wholly communal. As long as Jethamalani was defending Haji Mastaan, the alleged smuggler king, Varadarajan Mudaliar, jaspal singh ( of the cia espionage case), and the sarda case murders in pune, the bjp was at peace with its priniciples. But the moment Jethamalani decided to defend the two alleged comspirators on the murder of mrs Gandhi, the BJP expressed great revulsion. This revulsion is due to the fact that the bjp is once again wooing the vote vote bank in north india which laid the foundations stones for Pakistan. Besides the bjp is now busy trying to make khalistan inevitable. The forces behind the vote bank are actively trying to polarise Punjab. The bjp thus is aspiring to be the agent of the silent terrorists – the hindu communalists – jethamalani is merely the fly in the ointment.

the jethalani issue is typical of the machinery that has created the present situation in Punjab. Various actors in the drama have indulged in posturing without regard for the consequences on their histrionics. First there was mrs ghandu, who described the akali dals 41 point economic and social demand charters as secessionists in an effort to win the communal hindu vote. There was nothing separatist about these demands. Then came her son rajiv gandhu who maintained that the anandpur resolution was antinational. There was nopthing unpatriotic in this resolution – if one cared to read it. He also raised the demands on the Sikhs use of words like quam and raj karega khalsa and on that basis denounced the whole community as khalistanis. All by clever innuendos. Quam is no more unacceptable that the Desam in telegu desam or nadu in tamil nadu and raj karega khasla is roughly the equivalent of satyameva jayate. And yet Sikhs were made to feel traitors for usuing these words.

arguing the counter – point on the Punjab issue, all discussions must ultimately zero in on bhindranwale, about whom there is so much disinformation that this column is insuffiecient to remedy the situation. I am writing an account of the Punjab tragedy in the form of a book in which bhindranwale figures objectively – warts and all. I hope my book will inspire a future government to set up a special commission to find out the true story of what happened. My first hand knowledge of events in Punjab also leads me to say the following about sant bhindranwale.

he nevr advocated khalistan when the Indian army laid siege to the golden temple.

he was a strict moralist, totally against liquor, drugs and promiscuity. Hence i totally disagree any rumours about pregnant abducted woman kept as his prisoners, which were only spread to malign him.

he was in stance anti communist, and had broken the hold of the naxalities and pro soviet communists on the youth of Punjab.

it was bhindranwale anti communist stance that activated the Russians and the kgb lobby in mrs gandhis camp to spread disinformation and thus discredit him. A few days before operation bluestar, Pravda wrote that bhindranwale had a direct telephonis link with the cia Langley Virginia, the headquarters of the agency. That was untrue, but leading dailies in new delhi published wire service reproductions of that article. Who organised negative media blitz?

a large number of murders commited in Punjab brought swift condemnation from him, but these were never published. Such were the manoeuveres of the governments media mafia. In my presence bhindranwale condemned he massacre in which the hindus travelling in a bus were segregated and shot. He sent money to the affected hindu families. But this was never published in any newspaper/. When Dr V.N tiwari, MP, was shot dead in his house in chandigargh, bhindranwale wrote to his wife expressing his sorrow and called the murder an act of cowardice.

but these was such frenzy in the country at the time that no one was willing to listen. The government encouraged the rumors and disinformation. Even I, who never said anywhere that these were no arms in the golden temple. Was quoted as having said so by rajiv gandhu in the 1984 monsoon session of parliament. When i challenged him to produce just one news report from a reputable paper as proof, he was unable to do so. All this is part of the lokh sabha proceedings which we can refer to and yet, from kanyakumari to Kashmir, where i went, the statement that i had never made was quoted again and again to discredit whatever else i would say about Punjab. Who arranged publicity? The same people who finally murdered bhindranwale?

article written by, Dr Subramanian Swamy, a politician from india, he has held ministerial posts, he is also a trained economist. (theres a pic available of swamy and bhindranwale at the golden temple complex which i will be putting up shortly.

i typed the article fast sorry for any typos. Fateh

[Harvinder singh Babbar]

left swami meeting sant ji

the article was taken from CHARDI KALA (oct 2008). Gurdwara sri guru singh sabha southall, special edition magazine.

[guptveer1469]

Interesting.. wow..

More info on this swami please.

[SunSingh]

thanks for the great article. please post more writings of his.

[Jonny101]

Interesting article by Swami Subramaniam!

Always wondered who that Hindu man was in that picture with Sant Jee, now I know.