Dal Khalsa makes a con­certed ef­fort to rem­i­nisce and take in­spi­ra­tion from the his­toric Baba Baghel Singh cap­ture of Delhi and un­furl­ing of the Sikh flag atop the Red Fort.

Com­mem­o­rat­ing the mem­ory of Sikh war­rior Baba Baghel Singh who con­quered Delhi and un­furled the Sikh na­tional flag atop the his­toric Red Fort, the Dal Khalsa vol­un­teers and ac­tivists marched the streets of Hoshiarpur slo­ga­neer­ing about their re­solve to re­gain the sov­er­eign rule of the Sikhs.

“It was on this day 234 years ago that Baba Baghel Singh un­furled the Nis­han Sahib at the Red Fort in Delhi and es­tab­lished the rule of the Sikhs there.” said Harpal Singh Cheema -the chief of Dal Khalsa. At the start of the march, lead­ers of the body ex­tolled the mil­i­tary and po­lit­i­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics of Baba Baghel Singh.

Hun­dreds of youth ac­tivists as­so­ci­ated with the youth wing of the or­gan­i­sa­tion -the Sikh Youth of Pun­jab led by its pres­i­dent Paramjit Singh Tanda hit the streets of the city car­ry­ing Sikh flags and ban­ners to spread their mes­sage. Huge hoard­ings dis­played pho­tographs of Sikh Gen­er­als of yes­ter­years and re­cent Sikh strug­gle of the last cen­tury.

Un­mind­ful of the state­ment of union min­is­ter Venka­iah Naidu, wherein he has said that Azadi slo­gans will in­vite ac­tion un­der sedi­tion laws, the ac­tivists raised the slo­gans of Azaadi and car­ried plac­ards on which it was writ­ten  “Azaadi is our birth right and the strug­gle to at­tain it is our com­mit­ment”.

Party head Harpal Singh Cheema said the ghost of the SYL canal has cropped up again to haunt the peo­ple of Pun­jab. He said the dig­ging of SYL was next to im­pos­si­ble and that the peo­ple of Pun­jab would not al­low this to hap­pen. ‘We will de­fend the rights of the state at any cost. He said they would not al­low rob­bing or tak­ing away the wa­ters force­fully. We have a right to op­pose, protest and dis­sent said the leader.

Re­fer­ring to newly-elect CM Cap­tain Am­rinder Singh for con­tain­ing the drug men­ace within four weeks of his form­ing the gov­ern­ment, Kan­warpal Singh, spokesper­son of the party ob­served that it’s eas­ier said than done. He said a strong po­lit­i­cal will, di­rec­tion and pur­pose was needed to break the politi­cian-smug­gler-po­lice dirty nexus.

Dal Khalsa se­nior lead­ers H S Dhami  and Sat­nam Singh Paonta Sahib told the au­di­ence to stand united, meet the chal­lenges thrown by ex­ter­nal and in­ter­nal forces in­im­i­cal to Sikh in­ter­ests and as­pi­ra­tions and to avoid bick­er­ing on petty is­sues which has the po­ten­tial to di­vide the Sikhs.