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Son remembers Bhindranwale

Varinder Singh

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, June 6

“I remember my father as a deeply religious man, who used to make us recite certain ‘Shabad’ before we had our food and I am proud of him. It is for people to judge whether he faught for the Sikhs or not. I will continue to feel his absence as a religious and caring father and at times miss him as a son.”

This was stated by Mr Ishar Singh, (32) son of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale in an interview with The Tribune here today. Mr Ishar Singh, elder of Bhindranwale’s two sons was just 11 when Operation Bluestar took place at the Golden Temple complex in June 1984.’

“Definitely we feel his absence but at the same time all of us (family members) are proud of him. I don’t want to say anything about political people and I don’t want to discuss the present politics. People and history will judge what he did for the Sikhs. All I can say that only a few people can be as fortunate as he was,” observed Mr Ishar Singh, choosing words carefully.

Asked to share his childhood days, which incidentally was the most turbulent period witnessed by Punjab and Punjabis, Mr Ishar Singh, “All I can tell you is that we were trained to bow to “Waheguru’s Bhana” (the will of God) by our family. Sadness or elation both has almost no power to destabilise our innerself. I remember that he used to come home till I was seven years old and after that he did not come to home as he ha

d become a saint. It were we who used to go and meet him wherever he was. Though, he never claimed himself to be a saint or a leader, he used to describe himself as a guard and that his duty was to caution Sikhs. I remember, he and my grandmother Mata Nihal Kaur used to force us recite some ‘shabads’and the ‘ardaas’ before we had our food,” said Ishar Singh, who was reluctant initially to utter even a word.

Asked whether he considered his father to be a great saint or not, Mr Ishar Singh said, “Sikh history was full of sacrifices. At times, he dubbed himself a ‘Jharubardaar’ of the Sikhs. He was beyond worldly things and our family still follows by being less bothered about worldly things and this is what he had taught us,” said Mr Ishar Singh, who maintained that he went to Akal Takht today to pay obeisance to his father. His younger brother Inderjit is settled in Canada.

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