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Does anyone know what had happened with Surat Singh Khalsa morcha and hunger strike to free Singh's that have completed their jail terms ?

I haven't heard anything on Sikh media for a while on this issue it seems to have gone silent. Has the morcha ended ?

443 days and still ongoing currently at DMC Ludhiana hospital.

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Even before he was force fed he had still broken the world record for being on a hunger strike by some margin. In fact the margin was at such a level that it was actually physically impossible for a human to be on hunger strike anywhere near that long and still be alive.

And therein lies the problem. The authorities there (India) see us as gimmicky sort of people not to be taken seriously and we do nothing to dispel that viewpoint when one after the other some (we had 3 or 4 in a row) some of or men go on hunger strikes that are not even hunger strikes at all.

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Even before he was force fed he had still broken the world record for being on a hunger strike by some margin. In fact the margin was at such a level that it was actually physically impossible for a human to be on hunger strike anywhere near that long and still be alive.

And therein lies the problem. The authorities there (India) see us as gimmicky sort of people not to be taken seriously and we do nothing to dispel that viewpoint when one after the other some (we had 3 or 4 in a row) some of or men go on hunger strikes that are not even hunger strikes at all.

He has become very thin from his fast, he has fasted before; (though those weren't given as much attention).

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Even before he was force fed he had still broken the world record for being on a hunger strike by some margin. In fact the margin was at such a level that it was actually physically impossible for a human to be on hunger strike anywhere near that long and still be alive.

And therein lies the problem. The authorities there (India) see us as gimmicky sort of people not to be taken seriously and we do nothing to dispel that viewpoint when one after the other some (we had 3 or 4 in a row) some of or men go on hunger strikes that are not even hunger strikes at all.

Agreed, the length of time the "hunger strikes" are alleged to have gone on for are physically impossible.

Secondly a video went viral of Surat Singh eating various different foods and even asking if the food was home cooked. This is far from "force feeding", of course the explanation given was trust he was injected with a cocktail of drugs by the authorities that makes him forget his mission and makes him start eating food....

Of course the authorities will not take you seriously, hunger strikes do not work, Gurbaksh Singh x2, Surat Singh, what's the results so far ???

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Does anyone know what had happened with Surat Singh Khalsa morcha and hunger strike to free Singh's that have completed their jail terms ?

I haven't heard anything on Sikh media for a while on this issue it seems to have gone silent. Has the morcha ended ?

No-one from media esp is allowed to see Bapu Surat Singh. It was explained on Sikh Channel as well, why there was no further coverage of his case, but only updates every now and then.

Secondly a video went viral of Surat Singh eating various different foods and even asking if the food was home cooked. This is far from "force feeding", of course the explanation given was trust he was injected with a cocktail of drugs by the authorities that makes him forget his mission and makes him start eating food....

That video was produced to show that Bapu Surat Singh had abandoned his quest but it was just a propaganda stunt. But don't be quick to criticise. Remember that no-one is stopping you from going to Panjab to fight for Sikh rights.

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