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Bhai Surinder Singh Sodhi

"Whenever Sant Ji gave somebody some responsibility whenever they went on some mission he used to dismiss all the people around him and go inside and pray for hours and hours. God was never far from his mind. Then sometime people would notice that when they got endangered in some way suddenly help would come from nowhere to save them. Singhs became quite confident that Sant Ji's mystic mind and his strong prayers were always with them. That is an important part of all this."

 

"Yes" Iqbal Singh agreed. "One of those who was martyred early in the struggle Surinder Singh Sodhi was a good friend of mine. We were like brothers. Wherever he would go he would have a tape of kirtan [Sikh hymns] with him. He used to listen to kirtan nothing else. Once I asked him 'Sodhi why are you driving your motorcycle listening to hymns on your Walkman?' He said 'No one knows what may happen when death will come. I want a peaceful death. If I get killed at least my ears will be filled with the sound of kirtan not the sound of bullets.' These people were really saints and soldiers. Not only soldiers. In fact saints first then soldiers. They never wasted a bullet on innocent people."

Amarjit added "Sant Ji said many times that Surinder Singh Sodhi was his right hand his right arm. On the day that he was killed Sant Ji that his right hand had been cut off. Sodhi could handle anything—car truck airplaine—and if he had a rocket he could handle that too! And let me tell you one thing about Sodhi—he was an excellent marksman."

Bhai Surinder Singh Sodhi Ji was one of Sant Giani Jarnail Singh Ji Khalsa Bhindranwale’s closest Singhs. Bhai Sahib was skilled in using almost every weapon. Bhai Sahib completed many missions which will be written up in due time.

Dusht Bhajan Lal and Sant Ji’s orders

Bhajan Lal had committed so many gross human rights violations on the Sikhs living in Haryana. During the Asian Games of Novemeber 1982 which were being held in New Dehli Bhajan Lal ordered that all Sikhs should be interrogated prior to entering Delhi to ascertain if they were terrorists or not. They were treated very badly they were rigorously searched and questioned to the extent that Ex-Cabinet Minister Swaran Singh Retd. Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh Retd. General Arora were even interrogated. Sikhs were given a strong message that they are 3rd class citizens and that they are unwanted residents of India. This disrespectful unwarranted treatment was not criticised by state or central government the press or intellectuals did not question this disgraceful treatment. No Sikh Congress Minister resigned in protest. Only one conclusion could be drawn from these events Sikhs are an oppressed minority in India. In addition to this Bhajan Lal also killed many Sikh youth during this time in fake encounters. To humiliate the Sikhs in his state he also ordered police and other officials to catch Sikhs and shave their beards on one side of their face. Dusht Bhajan Lala had a hand in attacking various Gurudwara Sahibs in the state of Haryana. Sant Giani Jarnail Singh Ji Khalsa Bhindranwale told Bhai Surinder Singh Sodhi to go and deliver justice to this enemy of the Panth. Sant Ji told Bhai Surinder Singh Sodhi Ji that he was only to kill Dusht Bhajan Lal if he could get away. Bhai Sahib immediately started to prepare for this mission. He dressed up as a naval officer and took a train to Haryana State. From here Bhai Surinder Singh Sodhi then arranged a meeting with Bhajan Lal. Bhajan Lal at this time had very tight security surrounding him but Bhai Sahib managed to get past all these obstacles. Bhai Sahib eventually met Dusht Bhajan Lal and both of them were sat down drinking tea. Even in the room Dusht Bhajan Lal was in there were many security personal. Bhai Sahib wanted to cut this Dusht’s head off there and then he didn’t care for the consequences of getting caught or getting shaheed all he cared about was the Panth. However Bhai Sahib was bound to Sant Ji’s hukam in that he must not kill Dusht Bhajan Lal if he could not get away. As a result Bhai Sahib wasn’t able to kill this Dusht such was his disciple as a Saint Soldier and such was his respect for Sant Ji.

Bhai Surinder Singh Sodhi was an amazing gursikh of a very high jeevan. Bhai Sahib was like Bhai Bidhi Chand the great Sikh of Satguru Sri Guru Har Gobind Sahib Ji Maharaj who was a master in disguise and who possessed nerves of Steel. Bhai Surinder Singh Sodhi in addition to being an amazing Soldier was also a Saint in every respect. Bhai Sahib had a very spiritual jeevan right from his childhood. He had so much love for the Sikh Kaum and for Guru Sahib. Even in the midst of battle Bhai Sahib would always have the name of Akaal Purakh on his lips. Bhai Sahib always remained in Chardeekala. He would always accept any seva he was given however difficult that seva was even if it meant certain death. Bhai Sahib would always say ‘Guru Ji has given us so much dedicating this one short life to him is not enough we should all give him millions of lifes only then can the debt be repaid.’

Bhai Sahib joined Guru Sahib’s Taksal from a young age and was a very good student. Through studying at Damdami Taksal Bhai Sahib’s knowledge of Bani was of a very high level. One time Bhai Surinder Singh Sodhi Ji went into Samadhi for three whole months without sleeping while he was at Sach Khand Sri Darbar Sahib Ji. Bhai Sahib was lost in naam simran at the feet of his beloved Guru Sri Guru Nanak Dev Sahib Ji. When Bhai Sahib came out of his Samadhi Singhs got very worried about him as they hadn’t seen him move in three months. He hadn’t eaten or slept for three whole months. A normal person would surely have died but Bhai Sahib was the son of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Sahib Ji Maharaj and the only food he needed to live was gurbani. Bhai Sahib told the Singhs with him that he was fine and that they shouldn’t worry. But Singhs couldn’t believe it and they took him to a doctor just to make sure that nothing was wrong with him. The Doctor asked Bhai Sahib how he was. Bhai Surinder Singh Ji told the Doctor he was in Chardeekala. The Doctor then did a medical examination of Bhai. Firstly he looked at his eyes and then his hands etc. Finally the Doctor put his stethoscope against Bhai Sahib’s body. When he did this he was trying to listen to Bhai Sahib’s heart but instead of hearing the typical sound he heard the constant resonance of Waheguru which was emitting from Bhai Sahib. The Doctor thought there was something wrong with his stethoscope so he went and got a spare one. When he listened to Bhai Sahib’s chest he heard the same thing. He then thought that perhaps there was something wrong with his ears. He went and got one of his colleagues to come and listen to Bhai Sahib’s chest. When his colleague did this he heard the same thing. His colleague then listened to other areas of Bhai Sahib and the same thing was heard everywhere. The Doctors both were amazed and told the Singhs that Bhai Sahib is perfectly fine and that he there was something special about him in that everywhere they listened all they could hear was the name of Waheguru.

One day Sant Giani Jarnail Singh Ji Khalsa Bhindranwale went up to Bhai Surinder Singh and told him that he needed him to deliver a message to a Singh in a far away pind (village). The message was very urgent. Sant Ji said that the military was scattered all over Punjab and that it will be hard to go through them. Bhai Surinder Singh Ji asked if they could do Ardas together in front of the Great Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji Maharaj. Sant Ji and Bhai Sahib did Ardaas together asking for Bhai Sahib to be in Chardi Kala and to safely deliver the message as it was important for the safety of the Panth. After Ardas Bhai Sahib left for the village on his motorcycle. In order for Bhai Sahib to enter the village and to deliver the message he had to go through several other villages because they had no big roads. As Bhai Sahib was driving he noticed that the military was already there and they were blocking the road ahead. Then turned around and tried another road there too the military was blocking the road. He tried going back and trying to go through another village but there too the military was blocking the road.

Then Bhai Sahib got an idea he saw railway tracks. He knew the military wouldn't block the railway. So he went up to the railway tracks. He noticed the wood blocks between the rails were very large and hard and it was not possible to drive with the motorcycle over them. He would surely get a flat tire to say the least.

So Bhai Surinder Singh Ji then drove his motorcycle on one of the rails!!!!! He managed to balance the motorcycle on the rail and he even drove fast cause he had to deliver the message fast. Bhai Sahib safely delivered the message regardless of all of the obstacles he faced. All of this due to the KIRPA of GURU MAHARAJ. As Bhai Sahib was driving it's said that some people were farming in their fields and they saw him on his motorcycle driving on the rail. They were stunned as this was said to be impossible. It's hard for a person to even walk on the rail and keeping their balance without falling off. Driving a motorcycle on it is beyond thinking. It's all possible with KIRPA. This shows an example of the kind of Sharda Bhai Sahib had.

 

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article from 1984     quite a few articles from the 80s and 90s online   their all biased indian propaganda 

Wave of Sectarian Killings Sweeps Through Indian State

 
 
 
By William Claiborne
April 23, 1984

A wave of political and sectarian violence has swept the troubled Indian state of Punjab, causing growing panic among moderate Sikhs and Hindus and increasing frustration within the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Professionally executed vengeance killings, including a spate of murders of moderate Sikhs by more radical coreligionists, have raised fears that India's wealthiest state faces the prospect of open-ended sectarian strife similar to that in Northern Ireland.

Indian authorities say much of the recent terrorism has been directed from the spartan quarters in the Golden Temple of Sikhism of a fundamentalist Sikh leader, 35-year-old high priest Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.

From a heavily guarded sanctuary in the Golden Temple, Bhindranwale smiled as he pronounced what amounted to a death sentence recently on a leader of the movement for Sikh autonomy in the troubled Indian state of Punjab.

"A Sikh doesn't spare a man who commits a sin, one who attacks or initiates the offensive," he said, referring to Gurcharan Singh of the rival Akali Party, whom he accused of plotting against his life.

Rocking slowly on his haunches and touching his flowing, dark beard, Bhindranwale added, "He has conspired to kill me and my associates. I could spare him, but the Sikh congregation will not spare him. . . . We believe in justice."

Bhindranwale has not left the temple grounds for two years because he is wanted in connection with scores of assassinations, bomb blasts and arson attacks. Indian police will not enter the temple for fear of offending moderate Sikhs.

More than 100 people have been killed in Punjab since the terror escalated in mid-February, 60 of them in retaliatory murders in the last month alone. More than 300 have been killed in Sikh-Hindu violence in the past 20 months.

One of these was Surinder Singh Sodhi, a follower of Bhindranwale, who was gunned down two weeks ago in a seedy hotel opposite the Golden Temple complex, Sikhism's holiest shrine. The next day, after an aide to Bhindranwale played at a news conference a tape-recorded "confession" of one of the alleged killers, which implicated Gurcharan Singh in Sodhi's death, the beheaded bodies of a man and the woman whose voice had been recorded were found outside Amritsar.

The vengeance killings were not an anomaly in the wave of political and sectarian violence that has swept Punjab. Professionally executed assassinations have become almost daily occurrences here.

The recent spate of murders of moderate Sikhs by followers of Bhindranwale reflects a new turn to the violence, giving rise to fears that the Sikh rights movement, which once followed Mohandas K. Gandhi's principle of nonviolence, will either be forced to harden its demands or will be supplanted by the terrorists, leading Punjab into open sectarian strife.

Often operating in pairs on motorcycles with British-made Sterling submachine guns and hand grenades, the terrorists usually work at night, seeking out government officials, policemen, prominent Hindu leaders, newspaper editors and rival Sikhs whose names appear on a "hit list" that is openly discussed by radical Sikhs.

Bhindranwale, in an interview, referred several times to the "hit list," and obliquely lent credence to reports that the name of Gandhi's 39-year-old son, Rajiv, general secretary of the ruling Congress (I) Party, is on it.

"The government itself has marked out the hit list. Ask the government if Rajiv Gandhi is on the hit list. The government started the repression of the Sikhs, so it gave birth to the hit list itself," said Bhindranwale, a fundamentalist sant, or Sikh village priest, who rose to prominence within the radical wing of the Sikh nationalist movement when the mainstream Akali Party began its nationwide agitation for greater Sikh autonomy in Punjab in July 1982.

Since the wave of assassinations of prominent Punjab Hindus and Sikh politicians associated with Gandhi's Congress (I) Party began a month ago, the prime minister and her son have curtailed their campaigning for parliamentary elections to be held sometime this year in areas where Sikh militants are active.

Responsibility for many of the assassinations has been claimed by a shadowy terrorist group called the Dashmesh Regiment, which police say may be an offshoot of the radical All-India Sikh Students Federation. The federation also has offices in the sprawling Golden Temple complex in central Amritsar.

Since the federation was banned earlier this year, hundreds of its members have been detained by Indian security forces, and it has since operated underground with its direction coming from the sanctuary of the temple complex. Although the temple remains surrounded by heavily armed police and paramilitary forces, the government has not dared enter the sacred complex.

Punjab state police inspector Chowdry Subey Singh said he does not even send agents into the complex to seek intelligence.

"We totally respect the sanctity of the temple. We have to," he said.

Harminder Singh Sandhu, general secretary of the Sikh students federation, said in an interview that the Dashmesh Regiment, which has publicly vowed that "one VIP will be killed every day in Punjab," operates independently of the federation to pressure the government into lifting the ban on the students. But, he added, members of the student group are "free to join Dashmesh if they want to assist in this pressure."

Dashmesh in Punjabi means 10th, a reference to Sikhism's 10th and last guru, Gobind Singh, who before he died in 1708 formed Sikhs into a ferocious fighting force whose exploits in battle have been legendary since.

"Traitors to the Sikh panth ideal are certainly to be punished, but it depends on the time, the situation and the place. A traitor has no right to live on this earth. If he stabs a Sikh in the back, he won't breathe any longer," said Sandhu, a bandoleer of cartridges across his chest and gun-toting guards surrounding him.

"Since the students federation was declared unlawful, there is no other alternative than to engage in violent confrontation with the government. The Sikhs view their very existence as in danger," he added.

The Golden Temple complex is bristling with guns, ranging from sophisticated automatic weapons that police sources say are stolen from Sikh units of the Army, to ancient double-barreled shotguns and preindependence British-made Enfield .303 bolt-action rifles.

Crude sandbag bunkers have been erected on top of some of the buildings, and rooftop snipers constantly watch the helmeted police and paramilitary forces just outside the complex.

"All the temples in the Punjab are our fortresses, the source of our inspiration. Youths are being prepared to fight against the government. You go to any village, and everybody has a gun," Sandhu said.

Barely 100 yards across a courtyard filled with worshiping pilgrims to the golden-domed temple, sitting in a heavily guarded room and receiving an endless stream of supplicants, the beleaguered head of the more moderate Akali Party, Harchand Singh Longowal, talked about the sectarian violence sweeping Punjab, and the internecine fighting among Sikhs. The large temple complex is headquarters for a wide variety of Sikh groups.

Melodious, haunting Sikh prayers echoed across the huge reflecting pool surrounding the imposing temple as Longowal disassociated himself from the violence attributed to Bhindranwale and his disciples.

"The Akali Dal party has nothing to do with this violence. The volunteers of Akali Dal are quite under control. As far as their Bhindranwale's followers' ways are concerned, you have to ask them. We are launching a peaceful movement, to obtain everything peacefully," Longowal said.

Longowal blamed "Hindu imperialists" for the violence in Punjab, but despite a flurry of pamphlets issued in his name in recent weeks branding Bhindranwale's supporters as "barking dogs" whose terrorist activities have undermined the Sikhs' cause, he refused to criticize the radical leader directly.

When asked whether he would feel in danger from the radical Sikhs if he compromised in his negotiations with the Gandhi government for Sikh autonomy in Punjab, Longowal replied, "We are not going to lessen our demands. The party is not afraid of any individual. Maybe I will be alone, but I am safe."

In response to a question, Longowal acknowledged the paradox that in an election year in which Prime Minister Gandhi is dependent on the pivotal Hindu vote in Punjab and adjacent states in the Ganges River plains, she also cannot afford to make major concessions to the Sikh demands for power in their home state. The Sikh and Hindu populations are nearly equally divided in Punjab.

"But I am very confident that sooner or later, we will compel the government to peacefully settle by accepting our demands. The Akali Dal has made its demands clear. Everything has been discussed at the table. Now it is up to the government to take whatever action is needed. We are not going to lessen our demands," Longowal said.

In addition to a series of religious demands that the government has offered to accept, including a constitutional amendment that would recognize Sikhism as a separate religion rather than as an adjunct of Hinduism, the Akali Party is demanding broader political representation and autonomy. It also is demanding that Punjab's capital, Chandigarh, be made a Sikh capital exclusively, and Amritsar a holy city.

Many Hindus here say that, in addition to living with the daily fear of terrorism, they are afraid that concessions by the government will lead to the creation of an independent Sikh state--Khalistan, separatist Sikhs call it--and the subjugation of Hindus.

"It is a power struggle, pure and simple. The Sikhs are trying to seize power in Punjab through terrorism," said Baldev Parkash Nhalawan, a Hindu physician and president of the Punjab unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Nhalawan, who said he has received letters from the "Khalistani movement" warning that, "Your time has come, you are on our list," spoke in his office in the presence of a Punjab police plainclothesman armed with a submachine gun. He said he has to have a 24-hour guard.

"I've been singled out, but then so have many others, and some have already been hit. Whatever Bhindranwale and the others say inside the Golden Temple is recorded on tape, and the tapes are sold on the outside. They spew poison. We can only prepare for our self-defense," Nhalawan said.

Punjab's economy, normally booming as a result of India's "green revolution" which made the state the nation's principal granary, is estimated to have lost $1.2 billion in the last year as a result of decreased investor confidence due to the political instability.

 
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3 minutes ago, MisterrSingh said:

Sant Jarnail Singh understood. He traversed the line between necessary and no-go. Sadly, there weren't enough individuals with the same qualities, just a lot of hot heads with no long-term vision. Brave, yes, but no plan.

even the kind of disparity in terms of intelligentsia , arms , forces , leaders was huge between the hot heads on sikhi side and the GoI 

You see you only have ak-47, the other person has vijaya tanks, helicopters, etc etc and if things got worse, they could always call their allies for help against "insurgent" khalistanis

The spoils started for us since the day Ranjit singh died, actually before that itself as the emperor himself was wooed by Gulab Singh and others who finally waited for the moment to draw the nail in coffin.

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Yh I agree   he was the perfect leader.

Problem is after him there was no one unifying leader. A lot of angry young men who without a doubt were very brave    but no plan or direction.

They were a product of their times, it's only a matter of time before you can no longer see your people being tortured and suppressed    and they took up arms and went on a killing spree   and they really did push the Indian gov to the edge. 

Their biggest legacy, is when sikhs nxt decide to pick up arms   its these kharkus that will be the inspiration. 

Biggest victory is when the inspiration continues to live on    something the Indian gov couldn't erase 

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