Dal Khalsa ac­tivists and lead­ers will as­sem­ble at the high­est Sikh tem­po­ral au­thor­ity -Akal Takht Sahib in the morn­ing of 29 Sep­tem­ber to pray for the likes of Hard­eep Singh Ni­j­jar who have been killed ex­tra­ju­di­cially in Pun­jab, In­dia, and var­i­ous other coun­tries of the world. WSN re­ports.

Coin­cid­ing with the 42nd an­niver­sary of the rev­o­lu­tion­ary poet, Sikh ide­o­logue, and Dal Khalsa leader -Bhai Gajin­der Singh and his as­so­ci­ates’ peace­ful hi­jack­ing of an In­dian Air­lines Flight from Chandi­garh, Dal Khalsa will be com­mem­o­rat­ing the day as Prayer Day at Akal Takht Sahib on 29 Sep­tem­ber 2023.

The hi­jack­ing on 29 Sep­tem­ber 1981 was done to protest the po­lice’s dis­re­spect to­wards Sikh re­li­gious scrip­tures, the ar­rest of Sikh sa­vant-leader Sant Jar­nail Singh Khalsa Bhin­dran­wale on 20th Sep­tem­ber, and the po­lice killing of 13 Sikhs at Mehta Chowk.

Sig­nif­i­cantly, af­ter serv­ing a life sen­tence in Pak­istan re­lated to the hi­jack­ing case, Gajin­der Singh con­tin­ues to re­side in that coun­try, hav­ing sought refuge there. It is in Pak­istan that a few months ago, Sikh mil­i­tant Paramjit Singh Pan­jwar was killed by un­known gun­men. Dal Khalsa had even then al­leged that his killing was also the hand­i­work of the In­dian se­cu­rity ap­pa­ra­tus.

Se­nior leader of Dal Khalsa, Kan­warpal Singh, de­scribed Gajin­der Singh as a state­less Sikh who wishes to live freely on his own terms, but re­gret­tably, due to the In­dian gov­ern­men­t’s mis­lead­ing pro­pa­ganda, in­flu­en­tial coun­tries around the world have closed their doors to him.

Speak­ing to The World Sikh News, Dal Khalsa leader Kan­war Pal Singh said, “Count­less Sikhs are liv­ing as State­less per­sons in var­i­ous parts of the world. With the United Na­tions not in­ter­ven­ing in any of the cases, the least we can do for them is to pray for jus­tice with the hope that one day, like Canada, some­body will take note of their plea.”

The Dal Khalsa press note read, “The Ar­das is for the well-be­ing of the fam­i­lies of those who are in ex­ile and for the suc­cess of the Sikh sov­er­eignty and free­dom strug­gle.”

“We are de­ter­mined to seek jus­tice for mar­tyrs like Bhai Hard­eep Singh Ni­j­jar who were killed in un­law­ful and un­just ways. The cul­prits of the ex­tra­ju­di­cial killings will not go un­pun­ished.”

“We are de­ter­mined to seek jus­tice for mar­tyrs like Bhai Hard­eep Singh Ni­j­jar who were killed in un­law­ful and un­just ways. The cul­prits of the ex­tra­ju­di­cial killings will not go un­pun­ished.”

Par­ty’s Gen­eral Sec­re­tary Par­mjit Singh Tanda shared that the Akal Takht Sahib rec­og­nized and ho­n­oured Gajin­der Singh’s sac­ri­fices for the Panth by be­stow­ing upon him the ti­tle of ‘Mar­tyr Sikh War­rior’ on 20th Sep­tem­ber 2020.

Party gen­eral sec­re­tary and spokesper­son Paramjit Singh Mand said, “With the in­ter­ven­tion of Canada’s Prime Min­is­ter Justin Trudeau, once again the de­mand for a Sikh state is cen­tre-stage. We ac­knowl­edge the role of the Cana­dian gov­ern­ment and con­sider it a sig­nif­i­cant vic­tory of the self-de­ter­mi­na­tion move­ment.”

Lead­ers of the pro-free­dom Dal Khalsa also wel­comed the re­lease af­ter four years of the promi­nent leader of the Hur­riyat Con­fer­ence, which is fight­ing for Kash­mir’s free­dom –Mir­waiz Umar Fa­rooq. They hoped that Mir­waiz’s re­lease would pave the way for the re­lease of other im­pris­oned jour­nal­ists, hu­man rights ac­tivists, and pro-free­dom po­lit­i­cal lead­er­ship.”