Activist Vasu Primlani in an emotional video, placed here, has expressed gratitude to the Sikh people for their exemplary contribution. From Indirapuram, Gaziabad, near Delhi to various Gurdwaras in Delhi -historic and Singh Sabhas dotting the National Capital Region of Delhi, individually and collectively, with meagre resources of money and material, the Sikh community is madly engaged in providing succour and relief to every needy person -man and woman, rich and poor, with no discrimination of caste, colour, religion and region.  The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee and many other Gurdwaras have opened all empty space -halls, parking lots, grounds -every inch of space has been converted into Community Centres distributing Oxygen Langar.  Across India, Sikh activists and Gurdwaras from Mumbai to Panvel to Kanpur to Lucknow to Shillong to Kolkatta to Ranchi, with as many cylinders as they can manage are organising Oxygen distribution centres.

AS THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA and all state governments have failed totally to rise up to the occasion in this hour of dire need, with mounting deaths all around, Indians from all across the country, including mainstream satellite channels are acknowledging the selfless service of the Sikh community.

India is going through one of the greatest disasters in its history. Every Indian has to fend for himself or herself for oxygen, for food, to cremate our daily members. We are locked in our homes but Sikhs are on the streets.

Not just Oxygen Langar, Sikh activists are peacefully burying the dead and creating tens of bodies every day as the state facilities for cremating the dead have collapsed.

How desperate is the situation can be gauged from this desperate remark by a patient’s relative, “We never thought the meaning for Aatmanirbhar Bharat will mean that each and every family which affected by this deadly Indianised version of COVID will have to be ‘Aatmanirbhar’ and not be ‘Nirbhar’ on the institution we put in power.”

A young Sikh activist in Delhi is distributing Oxygen cans in Delhi for emergency relief till an Oxygen cylinder is arranged.

All groups participating in the DSGMC elections -Shiromani Akali Dal Badal, Shiromani Akali Dal Delhi, Jago party and other groups have put the DSGMC elections beyond them and are organising makeshift hospitals and distribution of Langar.

The Guru Tegh Bahadur Railway station on the Central Railway local network in Mumbai has been bedecked in solemn celebration of the 400th birth anniversary of the Ninth Master -Guru Tegh Bahadur.

The Washington Post has narrated the stories of how faith groups have taken over while the state administration has collapsed to serve COVID19 patients and their families.

Non-governmental groups and philanthropists, irrespective of their religious faith are scurrying to Gurdwaras and Sikh institutions to make voluntary contributions and assist their campaigns in any which way they can.

A shopkeeper in Indirapuram, Gaziabad, to whose house the Gurdwara volunteers provided food at their doorstep, graciously said on Facebook, “I salute you and in case God gives me birth as a human being again, I would like to be born in a Sikh family.”

Activist Vasu Primlani has put together an emotional video expressing gratitude to the Sikh people for their exemplary contribution. In her voice choked with grace and tears rolling down her cheeks, she acknowledges “Sardar Ji.”

Thank you Vasu Primlani for saying Thank you to the Sikhs. Your words are our strength and motivation.  May your words continue to inspire many more to serve humanity, not only in these times of distress and disease but even during easy times.