Punjab's Response To Police Tactics

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A hoarding in Sri Anandpur Sahib

<P dir=ltr align=justify>CHANDIGARH: At a time when Punjab Police in an Akali regime has been harassing Sikhs for putting up posters or photographs of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, people in many parts of the state are snubbing the move and responding by putting up huge hoardings of the Sant thus sending out a message that repressive tactics will lead to nowhere.

In a detailed report in a regional English daily on Monday, mention was made of hoardings that not only featured Sant Bhindranwale but, in fact, included him alongside the tall Sikh heroes of the struggle against colonial rule.

Bhindranwale is seen as a widely accepted Sikh hero of contemporary times who refused to bind himself or work within the parameters of political functioning set up by the Indian brahamanical powers and questioned the skewed ways in which law and justice delivery mechanisms responded to aspirations of minorities. Clearly, this was an aspect that appealed to the masses which have now taken to putting up his hoardings in various Punjab towns.

Pictures of Sant Bhindranwale sell like hot cakes in Punjab

<P dir=ltr align=justify>In recent past, police has tried to embroil certain Sikh leaders under the garb of allegations that they distributed t-shirts or posters with the Sant’s photograph, even though no one is ready to come on record to say that the Sant’s photograph is something illegal.

The SGPC has, in fact, installed a portrait of Sant Bhindranwale in the Sikh Museum in Amritsar, the Sant’s memory is honored at a function held every June at the Akal Takht and the SGPC officials participate in the function where Ardas is led by the Jathedar of the Akal Takht. Photographs of the Sant often adorn many a poster for gatherings, meetings, kirtan darbars etc.

However, recently a tendency has been noticed that some police officials have been making these an excuse to harass Sikh youth. Reports of stopping cars and other vehicles and booking people for sporting a photograph of the Sant have been received from many parts of Punjab. The reaction from the Sikh sangat and ordinary masses in the form of huge hoardings of the Sant seem to be an apt response to such police tactics.

Sant Bhindranwale On Hoardings Now: Punjab Responds To Police’s Tactics

The newspaper in Chandigarh said the “villagers consider Bhindranwale as a martyr who had laid his life while fighting for the Sikh community.”

One villager, Gurbax Singh, resident of Ranbirpura village, to whom the reporter spoke to, said there was “nothing wrong in the hoarding as Bhindranwale was also a great warrior, who sacrificed his life for the honour and prestige of Sri Harmandar Sahib and Sri Akal Takht Sahib.”

Photographs of the Sant and his posters have remained in demand for many years now, irrespective of the fact that these pictures often make Sikh youth more vulnerable to being booked in false cases by the police.

[Amrit79]

again I say

Come together and lets see then who dares to touch us ??

[Khalasthan86]

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PANTH KI JEET

raj karega KHALSA

india can not stop us, we WILL get khalistan