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Dal Khalsa wants freedom for Sikhs

Chandigarh, Apr 14 (IANS) :

A separatist Sikh party will organise a march in Punjab from April 29 to seek freedom for the Sikh community.

"Our march will start from Akal Takht in Amritsar's Golden Temple complex on April 29 and end at Damdama Sahib on May 5," Dal Khalsa general secretary

Kanwarpal Singh Bittu announced Wednesday.

"We want freedom from the Indian yoke." :umm:

Dal Khalsa workers will primarily tour rural areas across Punjab for a mass contact programme and to spread the message of freedom.

"We will tell people how dangerous the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress are and how various Akali parties have abandoned the cause for a separate Sikh state," Bittu said.

The party extended its support to renegade Akali leader Simranjit Singh Mann for the coming Lok Sabha polls. It will also support Sarbjeet Singh Maloya, son of Beant Singh, one of the assassins of prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1984.

Maloya is contesting from the Bathinda Lok Sabha seat.

Dal Khalsa has demanded that separatist ideologue Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale be conferred the Punjab Rattan award on the lines of the one given last week by Akal

Takht, the highest religious seat of the Sikhs, to late Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) president Gurcharan Singh Tohra.

"We demand the award for Bhindranwale as his contribution to the Sikh cause was more than that of Tohra. The award to Tohra is a good

thing. It shows that contribution of Sikh leaders is being realised," Bittu told reporters here.

"Irrespective of his ideology, Bhindranwale should be given the award on June 6, the 20th anniversary of his death in Operation Bluestar (the attack on the Golden Temple by the Indian Army)."

Bittu said despite announcements by the SGPC about building a memorial at the Golden Temple for Bhindranwale and others killed during Operation Bluestar, no such memorial had come up.

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