Would Sikhs Be Happy If India Gave Amritsar Vatican Status?

[Jujhar Singh]

Just a small suggestion?

[HSD*^]

i'd be happy if hindustan got the hell out of khalistan. does anyone still have those car stickers?

[saint-soldier]

no, what is the vatican status gonna do when everyone in the state is on drugs and we got groups being created by goi to prevent sikhs from following true sikhi.

[rupinder singh]

It's not what would make Sikhs happy, but more about accepting Sikhs have the autonomy to make their own decisions on dharmic, regional and global issues.

Although GOI may not be a major player in our panthic decsion making, we have the added problem of GOI backed anti-Sikh groups such as naamdharis, nirankaris, radhosoamis and dehdhari derawalaes etc who constantly cause confusions in order to break a majority force from forming.

[lodi_my_dodi]

The problem of Punjab will not go away with changing the status of the city. The same people will be in power doing the same old stuff, at the end of the day it wont make anything better for Punjab or Amritsar. It may just give it a bit more publicity, at the end of the day it wont be a mini Khalistan.

[S1ngh]

I think it is just toooo late now.. This was the demand made 25 + years ago...

[SunSingh]

the vatican is actually a separate country from italy. It would mean india giving up rule over Amritsar.

[2desi]

Why doesn't the state government just declare Sri Amristar Sahib a holy city and prohibit alcohol, tobacco, and meat from being sold in the city? Because there is too much money to be made from the sale of these things, on top of profits from restaurants, hotels and pub/clubs.

What we need today is a way for Sikhs worldwide to have equal representation from each country in order to limit interference from the GOI and its cells. In India its all politics, the five Jathedars & SPGC make most of their decisions according to their political alignment or for self profit, not caring for what would be best for the entire panth. Like on the issue of a memorial for Operation Blue Star, I pretty sure that majority of Sikhs worldwide want this but the SPGC in India won't make one!

We need to figure out a way to have better distribution of representation, so Sikhs outside of India can have their say on important decisions, maybe make an International SPGC, with representation from the UK, Canada, US, India, Pakistan ect.

Any ideas?