Alleging that Indian government under Narendra Modi continues its march against minorities and nationalities, Dal Khalsa has reached out to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva narrating the volatile developments that spell an anarchic situation for religious minorities in India.

From abrogation of Article 370 in Kashmir to India’s Supreme Court’s “political” verdict on Babri Masjid in the Ayodhya dispute to the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act by the Indian parliament -everything is being played out in India’s march to make India a professedly Hindu country, reads the memorandum submitted to the High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet.

Party secretary for human rights Pritpal Singh Switzerland met the representative of High Commissioner at the UNHCHR office in Geneva and apprised him of the increasingly difficult and dangerous times for all minorities and nationalities, who want to stand up for the fundamental rights of oppressed people.

Reiterating that Sikhs as geographical neighbours of Kashmir and as people who endorse the UN Charter on Human Rights, consider it their sacred duty to stand up against repression and oppression everywhere.

Pritpal Singh told the UN officials that how the government of Indian denied his party and other groups the right to protest against gross violations of rights of Kashmiri people.

The Indian state barred around 200 activists associated with Dal Khalsa and Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) from entering Jammu and Kashmir at the Madhopur-Kathua interstate border on 9 December on flimsy grounds. The activists were on their way to observe World Human Rights Day at Lal Chowk, Srinagar.

Complaining about the muted response of the international community and the United Nations Security Council, which has been making soft recommendations to the perpetrator state, the Dal Khalsa leader  Pritpal Singh told UN representative that the stoppage of Sikh leaders and human rights activists by the government from entering Jammu and Kashmir was a loud declaration by the Indian state that those who want to observe Rights Day for the people of Kashmir have no right to do so.

Urging the UN to make India answerable for this to the world community, the Dal Khalsa leader narrated the outcry of people across the spectrum on CAA.

The stoppage of Sikh leaders and human rights activists by the government from entering Jammu and Kashmir was a loud declaration by the Indian state that those who want to observe Rights Day for the people of Kashmir have no right to do so.

-Pritpal Singh, Secretary Human Rights, Dal Khalsa

Unquestionably, there are double standards of the government of India vis-à-vis the majority community and the Muslims, not only in Kashmir but the whole of India.

It is apparent that the Modi government was deliberately pushing the people to a point of no return and this has dangerous portents for South Asia.

It is reliably learnt that the Sikh leader Pritpal Singh had a patient hearing in the UN office and more so the officials were seized with the developing unrest across India.

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Speaking to WSN, Dal Khalsa spokesperson Kanwar Pal Singh said its time for UN intervention as the silence of the international community leadership was hurting the relevance of the UN Human Rights Charter.