When it was G20 in Am­rit­sar, Sikhs re­sponded with a P-20, where Sikh po­lit­i­cal par­ties and groups pre­sented the Pun­jab and Sikh per­spec­tives. Now when the an­nual G20 meet­ing with heads of state con­venes in Delhi, mi­nori­ties and na­tion­al­i­ties from across the In­dian sub­con­ti­nent will meet in Delhi prior to the G20 to pre­sent their per­spec­tive to the G20 group in ar­eas of so­cial, re­li­gious, and po­lit­i­cal de­vel­op­ments that con­cern them. A WSN Re­port.

TO PRE­SENT THE PER­SPEC­TIVE OF MI­NORI­TIES AND NA­TION­AL­I­TIES be­fore the G-20, the Shi­ro­mani Akali Dal (Am­rit­sar) and the Dal Khalsa have de­cided to con­vene the M & N 20 Con­clave on 7th Sep­tem­ber in New Delhi,  co­in­cid­ing with the G-20 sum­mit where heads and for­eign dig­ni­taries of 19 coun­tries and the EU are ar­riv­ing to at­tend it.

Ad­dress­ing a joint press con­fer­ence in Am­rit­sar, Akali Dal Am­rit­sar leader and Mem­ber Par­lia­ment Sim­ran­jit Singh Mann and Dal Khalsa leader Kan­war Pal Singh said at the time when 20 coun­tries of the world will be meet­ing in the In­dian cap­i­tal New Delhi on Sep 9-10, it is nat­ural that 20 mi­nori­ties and na­tion­al­i­ties should also con­vene to take stock of the re­li­gious, so­cial, eco­nomic and po­lit­i­cal cli­mate of the sub-con­ti­nent from a con­text which the G20 coun­tries are likely to ei­ther ig­nore or put aside.

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“Mark­ing the cul­mi­na­tion of its G-20 pres­i­dency, when In­dia un­der Naren­dra Modi will be pre­sent­ing its so-called achieve­ments and po­ten­tials, we, the op­pressed peo­ple have our side of the story to tell the world com­mu­nity in­clud­ing the vis­it­ing US pres­i­dent Joe Biden, and In­dia has a lot to an­swer too,” said Mann.

“We will tell our tale of woes, Mus­lims will tell theirs, like­wise Chris­tians will tell theirs. Sim­i­larly, Na­gas, Kash­miris, Tamils, Ma­nipuris, and trib­als will put forth their pain and con­cerns,” added Kan­war Pal Singh, se­nior leader of Dal Khalsa.

“The lead­ers said mi­nori­ties were reel­ing un­der a ma­jori­tar­ian dis­pen­sa­tion in In­dia. They said the pre­sent term of the Naren­dra Modi gov­ern­ment has seen a down­hill ride for mi­nori­ties.”

List­ing the is­sues re­lated to Pun­jab and the Sikhs, the fiery Mem­ber of par­lia­ment from San­grur Sim­ran­jit Singh Mann said,  “We are wit­ness­ing di­rect and unashamed in­ter­fer­ence in Sikh re­li­gious af­fairs through blas­phe­mous acts, mis­guided leg­is­la­tion and ju­di­cial in­ter­ven­tion, mis­car­riage of jus­tice in the re­lease of po­lit­i­cal pris­on­ers who have sur­passed their prison terms, gross mis­use of NSA, UAPA, mis­ad­ven­tures of the NIA, con­tin­ued ab­ro­ga­tion of wa­ter rights of Pun­jab, gov­er­nance and po­lice man­age­ment by proxy from New Delhi and ex­tra­ju­di­cial killings in the Sikh di­as­pora.”

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Kan­war Pal Singh said the fear psy­chosis of Mus­lims, the in­jus­tices to Dal­its, the to­tal sup­pres­sion of hu­man rights and mass de­ten­tions of Kash­miri ac­tivists, the con­tin­ued in­car­cer­a­tion with­out trial of dis­senters -lawyers, ac­tivists, ide­o­logues -from Sha­heen Bagh to Bhima Ko­re­gaon, the Ma­nipur hor­ror and state-spon­sored vi­o­lence in Ma­nipur and Nuh and back­track­ing of New Delhi in ho­n­our­ing Indo-Naga peace agree­ment will fig­ure in the de­lib­er­a­tions dur­ing the M&N 20 con­clave.

Spokesman of Dal Khalsa Paramjit Singh Mand told the me­dia that the views shared dur­ing the event will be for­warded to G20 coun­tries through their em­bassies in Delhi.