Cock­ing a snook at the Pun­jab and Union gov­ern­ment moves to de­fame the Sikh move­ment for rights and coun­ter­ing the hy­per­ac­tive Pun­jab po­lice press brief­ing call­ing the flag of Ma­haraja Ran­jit Singh a ‘Khal­is­tan flag,” ded­i­cat­ing the oc­ca­sion of Baisakhi -the birth­day of the Khalsa, as the Sikh na­tional day, Sikh po­lit­i­cal body Dal Khalsa will hold a Khalsa March from the fore­grounds of the his­toric White city of the Sikhs – Anand­pur Sahib to Takht Kesgarh Sahib on 13 April and also hoist the Sarkar-e-Khalsa flag. A WSN re­port.

To pay homage to the 13 mar­tyrs who laid down their lives on 13 April 1978, dur­ing a spir­ited move to counter the anti-Sikh neo-Ni­rankari -In­dian state-spon­sored cult’s gross blas­phemy and in­ter­fer­ence in the Sikh faith, to seek the re­lease of Sikh po­lit­i­cal pris­on­ers and to re­it­er­ate the call for self-de­ter­mi­na­tion, Dal Khalsa will hold a po­lit­i­cal con­fer­ence on the oc­ca­sion of Khalsa Sajna Di­was, fol­lowed by Ar­das -sup­pli­ca­tion to the Guru at the his­toric throne -Takht Kesgarh Sahib -the birth­place of the Khalsa, de­clared the lead­er­ship of Dal Khalsa at a press meet to­day.

Speak­ing to the me­dia, Dal Khalsa pres­i­dent Harpal Singh Cheema said, “The Hin­dutva gov­ern­ment at the cen­tre, along with the Pun­jab gov­ern­ment has un­leashed ter­ror on Sikh youth, built a cli­mate of fear by de­tain­ing scores of youth un­der NSA and lodg­ing them far away from the home state.”

The In­dian state’s on­slaughts on Sikhs will not un­der­mine or de­crease their re­solve to con­tinue their strug­gle for self-rule from In­dian hege­mony.

The party state­ment re­leased at the press meet stated, “Dal Khalsa is of the firm be­lief that with an eye on the 2024 Lok Sabha elec­tions, the pre­sent dis­pen­sa­tion led by Naren­dra Modi has clev­erly pit­ted the rest of In­dia against the Sikhs by en­gi­neer­ing a volatile sit­u­a­tion in Pun­jab, por­tray­ing Sikhs as a threat to na­tional se­cu­rity who de­serve ba­ton, bul­lets and pris­ons.”

Serv­ing a cau­tion­ary note to the peo­ple of Pun­jab, who just a year were grossly mis­led into re­turn­ing the Aam Aadmi Party to power in Pun­jab, Dal Khalsa said it was high time to read be­tween the lines

“This de­sign by the Union com­bined with the Pun­jab gov­ern­ment has been crafted and ex­e­cuted to keep Pun­jab on the boil and we ex­pect the com­ing times to spring more dan­ger­ous sur­prises in the run-up to the polls, ob­served the Dal Khalsa lead­er­ship.

The sin­is­ter move to use the Sikh card to over­awe In­di­ans to win 2024 elec­tions will back­fire. 

De­rid­ing the en­tire move of the po­lice, se­cu­rity and ad­min­is­tra­tion in Pun­jab and Delhi, party po­lit­i­cal sec­re­tary Kan­war Pal Singh, blamed that the en­tire Bol­ly­wood style op­er­a­tions in Pun­jab were by the dirty-tricks de­part­ment of the gov­ern­ment of In­dia meant to over­awe the rest of In­dia that Pun­jab was likely to slip out of In­di­a’s hands and Modi gov­ern­men­t’s timely ac­tion has saved it from the Khal­is­ta­nis.

“There’s no threat to peace in Pun­jab. The move to cre­ate a rift be­tween re­li­gious com­mu­ni­ties liv­ing in Pun­jab has had no im­pact on cor­dial re­la­tions be­tween Sikhs and Hin­dus. The dis­rup­tion to peace is in fact by the state as it still sees every­thing as a law-and-or­der prob­lem and not as a con­flict that needs res­o­lu­tion,” said party spokesman Paramjit Singh Mand.

There’s no threat to peace in Pun­jab. The move to cre­ate a rift be­tween re­li­gious com­mu­ni­ties liv­ing in Pun­jab has had no im­pact on cor­dial re­la­tions be­tween Sikhs and Hin­dus. 

Coun­ter­ing the call of Sikh ac­tivist Am­rit­pal Singh ask­ing Jathedar Akal Takht Harpreet Singh to con­vene the Sikh ple­nary ses­sion -Sar­bat Khalsa, Kan­warpal Singh said that nei­ther the tim­ing nor the ground sit­u­a­tion was con­ducive for such a meet.

Re­spond­ing to a me­dia query about Pun­jab Chief Min­is­ter Bhag­want Mann co­or­di­nat­ing with In­dian Home Min­is­ter Amit Shah for the op­er­a­tions in Pun­jab, Dal Khalsa Gen­eral Sec­re­tary Paramjit Singh Tanda lam­basted the CM and said, “Delhi Chief Min­is­ter Ke­jri­wal has gone on record that the Am­rit­pal Singh op­er­a­tion was a joint op­er­a­tion be­tween the Pun­jab gov­ern­ment and the Union gov­ern­ment.” Party se­nior leader Jas­bir Singh Khan­door, with­out minc­ing words called Bhag­want Mann a spine­less per­son, who has un­wit­tingly and wit­tingly un­leashed state ter­ror in Pun­jab.