Dal Khalsa's Joke: Calls others extremists in its Panthic Newspaper

Hindu extremism on rise, state fails to protect minorities - Dal Khalsa
Friday 3rd of October 2008
Kanwarpal Singh

Amritsar Sahib - Terming the torching of churches, raping of nuns and killings of innocent christians as a 'cultural terrorism" unleashed by Hindu extremists, the Dal Khalsa held the Indian government responsible for miserably failing to protect the lives and properties of the minority community.

In a hard hitting statement, the party vice-president Manmohan Singh Khalsa, general secretary Dr Manjinder Singh and political secretary Kanwarpal Singh urged the United Nations to intervene as despite the public outcry and recoomendations of National Commission for Minorities to ban Bajrang Dal, the approach of the Indian government has been totally biased.

"Though the prime minister and the UPA chairperson belong to minority community, the response of the state machinery is being driven by prejudice". As elections are drawing nearer, there were fears that violence against minorities would escalate, they observed. The connivance of the RSS and VHP was visible as their militant wing Bajrang Dal leader Mahendra Kumar supported and justified the attacks on churches.

The worst anti-Christian violence in India since independence has reminded the horrors and agonies of Sikhs and Muslims who suffered the worst kind of genocides in 1984 and 2002 in the hands of Congress and the BJP respectively. The leaders condemned the attempts made by certain so-called Hindutva elements directing christian refugees not to return to their homes unless they converted to Hinduism.

Urging the Amnesty International and the Asia Human Rights Watch to seek explanation from the Indian government for failing to curb the violations of the human rights, they said the silence of the international community especially the West was unfortunate and ridiculous.

Sikh radical outfit backs Raj Thackeray

Press Trust Of India


MNS leader Raj Thackeray's drive against north Indian migrants in Maharashtra has found support from radical Sikh outfit Dal Khalsa, which has announced a march on November 1 to highlight among other issues the influx of migrants in Punjab.

H S Dhami, President of Dal Khalsa said in Jalandhar on Wednesday that MNS chief Raj Thackeray has been "misunderstood by all".

"He is right in his own way as he is struggling to preserve and protect the culture, language and rights of his own people", he said.

Endorsing Thackeray's approach, Dhami said it was "unfortunate that the state doesn't provide suitable environment for non-violent struggle".

Senior leaders of Dal Khalsa, including Kanwarpal Singh and Manjinder Singh, pointed to the migrant population in Punjab and asked the Punjab government to regularise migrants.

They said demographic change in Punjab seemed to be "alarming" due to "heavy influx" of migrant population into the state.

The leaders said Dal Khalsa perceives that like Assam and Maharashtra the "outsiders" issue is going to quickly emerge in Punjab also.

"All political parties, pursuing narrow political ends are oblivious of the social, cultural, religious and political damage done to Punjab by their unmindful support to the migrant population," the Dal Khalsa alleged.