Baptized Sikh Employees Not To Wear Kirpan Near Aircraft

[BiggChan]

http://m.timesofindia.com/india/Baptized-Sikh-employees-not-to-wear-kirpan-near-aircraft/articleshow/8274095.cms

Baptized Sikh employees not to wear 'kirpan' near aircraft

May 12, 2011, 07.02pm IST TNN?[ Yudhvir Rana ]

AMRITSAR: Central Industrial Security Force has banned the Sikh employees to wear 'kirpan', Sikh's religious symbol, while performing their duties on airside at Sri Guru Ram Das International Airport. The force is entrusted with the task of airport security.

"Amritsar is one of the ultra sensitive international airports in the country and we can't take chances with the security of passengers" said commandant of the Force, Sharad Kumar, while talking to TOI on Thrusday. He said Sikh employees were allowed to wear 'kirpan' in Airport terminal building and other places but not near the aircraft.

The issue came to fore after Central Industrial Security Force prevented an airport employee Nirmal Singh to work near the aircraft while wearing his 'kirpan'. Nirmal Singh, a baptized Sikh, also lodged a complaint with Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee , Sikh's single largest representative body, to take notice of this interference into the religious affairs of the Sikhs. he also said that he had been working at airport since 2001. "On April 28th, a security force constable prevented me to work near the aircraft on the plea that I was wearing a kirpan" he said.

Sharad Kumar made it clear that security was of paramount issue for them. "It is not a religious but security issue" he insisted.

Meanwhile, showing its concern on the issue, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee president Avtar Singh Makkar demanded from government to immediately withdraw any such orders. "Kirpan is an essential part of Sikh's dresscode and can't be seprated from Sikhs" he said. He questioned if Sikh passangers could travel in the aircraft wearing six inch 'kirpan' then why an employee wearing it couldn't work near the a aircraft. He said that all the 19 baptized Sikh employees of airport were under trememdous mental tension due to Force's orders

[Singh559]

Raj Bina Nahin Dharam Chale Hain, Dharam Bina Sab Dalle Malle Hain - Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji

Blindly banning a kakaar is a clear attack on Sikhs, nothing more and nothing less. If we continue the path in Punjab, things will only get A LOT WORSE, hard to believe as Punjab is in a horrible condition right now.

They could have easily made it so dull kirpans or small kirpans were allowed, but instead they chose to viciously attack Sikhs by their choice of words and actions.

[dashmesh1984]

wow....

[Khalasthan86]

:khalsa: :khalsa2: KHALISTAN IS THE ONLY SOLUTION :khalsa2: :khalsa:

:happytyper: :happytyper:

[SarabjeetS]

This <banned word filter activated> happens in Amritsar . Where else can Sikhs experience freedom if such things happen in the holiest cities of sikhs !

[ghatak]

:khalsa: :khalsa2: KHALISTAN IS THE ONLY SOLUTION :khalsa2: :khalsa:

:happytyper: :happytyper:

yes like jews got israel, sikhs require khalistan to live in peace and freedom.

[PAL 07]

in the centre of sikhism (amritsar) at Guru Ramdass Airport one is not allowed to follow his religion...this is systematic attack on sikhism by policy makers in the govt