Why did Bhindranwala Ji have to use the Golden temple

[Guest dasguruka]

Wasn't it that they were planning to seize and cut off Punjab from India and to do this they piled almost all of the Gurudwaras in Punjab and then Pakistan would have sanctioned that the border existed between them and Khalistan. But, it was the Russian intelligence agency KBG that informed Indian government that Khalistan is being created and they have to move fast or by morning Punjab would be Khalistan. Like I read somewhere in this forum that it all depends on who you believe.

[S1ngh]

A good writeup here:

Criminals in Sacred Places of Worship

Bipan Chandra et al state:[1] "To protect himself, Bhindranwale moved in July 1982 to the sanctuary of Guru Nanak Niwas, a building within the Golden Temple complex from where he directed the campaign of terrorism in Punjab." And: "Fearing arrest, in December 1983, Bhindranwale moved into the safe haven of the Akal Takhat…" Khushwant Singh speculates: "When Bhindranwale sensed that the Government had at long last decided to arrest him, he first took shelter in the Golden Temple, then occupied and fortified portions of the Akal Takht."[2]

Why, one might ask these distinguished writers, would Bhindranwale present himself, along with over fifty of his supporters, at the Deputy Commissioner's residence on the day he moved to Guru Nanak Niwas, if his purpose was to hide from the law? Gurdev Singh, District Magistrate at Amritsar until shortly before the invasion, is on record[3] as having assured the Governor of the state that he could arrest anyone in Darbar Sahib at any time.

Bhindranwale had apparently not committed any serious violation of the law and, accordingly, had no need to 'hide'. No court of law had asked for his personal appearance for any crime. He lived in a place of worship open twenty-four hours a day.

In December 1983, a senior officer in Chandigarh confessed: "It's really shocking that we have so little against him while we keep blaming him for all sorts of things." The fact is that when the Government was in the process of training army units in the planned invasion of Darbar Sahib, the only charges against Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale were that his speeches were 'objectionable'.

Apparently, Jarnail Singh Bhinderanwale was 'wanted' by the 'lawless' police and an oppressive government so that he could be killed, as many other Sikhs had been, in order to silence the voice of protest and to check the revival of the Sikh faith, which he led?

There were people who felt offended by Bhindranwale's views and wanted him silenced. There were demands for his arrest after Baba Gurbachan

Singh's murder in April 1980 even though supporters of the Home Minister of India were reportedto have said:

"Whatever Bhindranwale's involvement, the Government had no concrete evidence and the ministry thought it inadvisable to arrest him on a flimsy case only to have him acquitted and transformed into a hero."

His innocence was noted but stubbornly refused to be accepted.

Shourie conceded: "For all I know, he is completely innocent and is genuinely and exclusively dedicated to the teachings of the Gurus." However, he went on to state in the same paragraph: "It is not Bhindranwale who triggers reflex actions in the tension that precedes a riot, it is this apprehension and fear that he has invoked."

Why were these people frightened, one might ask, and so apprehensive if he had committed no crime? Evidently, it was a self-imposed dread of the revival of the Sikh faith and the popularity of Jarnail Singh Bhinderanwale that worried them. Also, it is important to point out that the riots mentioned by Shourie were, without exception, massacres of Sikhs by mobs of Hindu hoodlums encouraged by the police.

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Full article: www.sikhgenocide.org/downloads/sandhu.doc