Sgpc Move To Pacify Radicals

[Azaad]

The SGPC is busy evolving a multi-pronged strategy to deal with the radical Sikh organisations that are out to whip up memories of the infamous Operation Bluestar during the silver jubilee of the Army operation, starting from June 1.

It will honour the kin of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhinderanwale, Bhai Amrik Singh, a former president of the All-India Sikh Students Federation, Major-Gen Shabeg Singh (retd), who had fortified Akal Takht and the Golden Temple complex before the Army operation and those killed in Operation Bluestar. Such a move will help in pacifying the radical Sikh organisations to some extent. Secondly, the SGPC will deploy its task force and newly raised Young Brigade in the Golden Temple and Akal Takht complex as preventive measures. Talking to The Tribune, SGPC president Avtar Singh said programmes would be chalked out to mark the silver jubilee of Operation Bluestar.

However, SGPC is unlikely to accept the demand of the radical Sikh organisations to raise the memorial in the memory of those killed in the Army operation, though it was passed by its general house.

Meanwhile, unmoved by the advice of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that Sikhs should forget the “painful events” of 1984, the Dal Khalsa has planned to undertake a “Genocide remembrance march” in the holy city on June 3, the day when the attack on Darbar Sahib was launched 25 years ago.