Dal Khalsa, known for its ties with eth­nic mi­nori­ties and strug­gling na­tion­al­i­ties in the In­dian sub-con­ti­nent, has voiced pro­found con­cern and out­rage over the heinous in­ci­dent of sex­ual as­sault on two Kuki in­dige­nous women in the In­dian state of Ma­nipur. A WSN Re­port.

DAL KHALSA HAS UN­EQUIV­O­CALLY HELD the Naren­dra Modi gov­ern­ment ac­count­able for the hu­man rights vi­o­la­tions in the state of Ma­nipur, in a state­ment re­leased to­day. The or­ga­ni­za­tion called upon all Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans to par­tic­i­pate in a col­lec­tive act of re­flec­tion by bow­ing their heads in shame for two min­utes dur­ing the cur­rent on­go­ing ses­sion of the In­dian Par­lia­ment.

Ad­dress­ing the alarm­ing trend of us­ing rape as an in­stru­ment to shame and in­sult op­pressed mi­nor­ity com­mu­ni­ties, Kan­war Pal Singh stressed that such rep­re­hen­si­ble acts thrive due to the sup­port and con­nivance of lo­cal ad­min­is­tra­tion and peo­ple in po­si­tions of power.

The party called the in­ac­tion of the Ma­nipur gov­ern­ment and the pre­vail­ing cli­mate of hate and abuse per­pet­u­ated by the rul­ing Bharatiya Janta Party as key fac­tors re­spon­si­ble for the de­plorable in­ci­dent.

Dal Khalsa called the in­ac­tion of the Ma­nipur gov­ern­ment and the pre­vail­ing cli­mate of hate and abuse per­pet­u­ated by the rul­ing Bharatiya Janta Party as key fac­tors re­spon­si­ble for the de­plorable in­ci­dent.

Sig­nif­i­cantly, re­cently, Dal Khalsa in a com­mu­nique to the US Am­bas­sador to In­dia Eric Garcetti had ap­pre­ci­ated his of­fer to the gov­ern­ment to in­ter­vene to re­store nor­malcy in the state of Ma­nipur.

No­tably, the se­nior leader Kan­war Pal Singh high­lighted that while this par­tic­u­lar in­ci­dent may be new, it is part of a dis­tress­ing pat­tern of sim­i­lar events in the past. In­stances such as the dis­hon­our­ing of Sikh women dur­ing the 1984 Sikh mas­sacre in Delhi, the abuse and as­sault of Mus­lim women dur­ing the Gu­jarat ri­ots in 2002, and prior in­ci­dents in Ma­nipur and other parts of the North­East were men­tioned to il­lus­trate the grav­ity of the sit­u­a­tion.