The Panth Se­wak Jatha com­pris­ing re­li­gious and po­lit­i­cal ac­tivists in a joint state­ment have ad­dressed the In­dian state’s on­go­ing se­cu­rity op­er­a­tions in Pun­jab and stated that the In­dian state is in­ten­tion­ally try­ing to cre­ate a tense and fear­ful at­mos­phere in Pun­jab. A WSN Re­port.

Panth Se­wak Jatha com­pris­ing Am­rik Singh Isru, Bhupin­der Singh Pe­hal­wan, Daljit Singh, Hard­eep Singh Mehraj, Lal Singh Akal­garh, Man­jeet Singh Phag­wara, Narain Singh, Ra­jin­der Singh Mughal­wal, Sat­nam Singh Jhan­jian, Sat­nam Singh Khan­de­wal and Sukhdev Singh Dod have chided the Pun­jab gov­ern­ment for op­er­at­ing as a front for the Delhi ad­min­is­tra­tion in their anti-Sikh ma­neou­vres across the state of Pun­jab.

Ris­ing to the oc­ca­sion, a large num­ber Sikh bod­ies are com­ing for­ward to counter the se­cu­rity of­fen­sive os­ten­si­bly to ar­rest one per­son and in that garb de­tain more than a hun­dred, stop in­ter­net ser­vices, clamp the dra­con­ian NSA, shift the de­tenues to As­sam, launch a me­dia of­fen­sive with triv­ial de­tails leaked by in­tel­li­gence and po­lice forces.

“Given the man­ner in which mo­bile com­mu­ni­ca­tions and the In­ter­net have been shut down while se­cu­rity forces ar­rest Sikh youth across Pun­jab, it is clear that the In­dian state is ex­e­cut­ing its strat­egy to craft and im­pose a nar­ra­tive against Sikhs and Pun­jab across the sub­con­ti­nent,” reads the state­ment re­leased to the me­dia.

“All le­gal pro­ce­dures and norms are be­ing thrown to the wind with com­plete im­punity to the po­lice for its be­hav­iour, re­port­ing and tac­tics.”

Mem­bers of the col­lec­tive noted that the se­cu­rity op­er­a­tions over the last few days are the next phase of the In­dian state’s strat­egy to iso­late and tar­get Sikhs in re­sponse to the ca­pac­ity, in­flu­ence, and strength demon­strated by Sikhs in the sub­con­ti­nent and around the world dur­ing the pan­demic and the Kisaan San­garsh.

They re­it­er­ated that the In­dian state has been ter­ri­fied in re­cent years by the po­lit­i­cal cap­i­tal and ca­pac­ity demon­strated by Sikhs and Pun­jab, as well as the grow­ing po­lit­i­cal con­scious­ness demon­strated by Sikh youth to­day. In re­sponse to this, In­dian agen­cies are in­ten­tion­ally cre­at­ing in­sta­bil­ity in Pun­jab in or­der to re­press po­lit­i­cal mo­bi­liza­tion and jus­tify their vi­o­lent ac­tions.

“In its en­thu­si­asm to de­mo­nize the Sikhs at a time when the G20 is cur­rently on in Am­rit­sar, the Pun­jab gov­ern­ment has put up a poor show of its stu­pid­ity and weak­ness be­fore an in­ter­na­tional au­di­ence. His­tory will record this,” said Daljit Singh speak­ing to WSN.

“The need of the hour is to de­velop a com­mon un­der­stand­ing of our cir­cum­stances and a col­lec­tive strat­egy to con­front the cur­rent chal­lenges,”

Daljit Singh, Panth Se­wak Jatha

“The need of the hour is to de­velop a com­mon un­der­stand­ing of our cir­cum­stances and a col­lec­tive strat­egy to con­front the cur­rent chal­lenges,” he added.

Call­ing upon the peo­ple of Pun­jab to main­tain dis­ci­pline, co­op­er­a­tion and col­lab­o­ra­tion to counter the state of­fen­sive, the state­ment said “Sikh ac­tivists and or­ga­ni­za­tions must de­velop a com­mon un­der­stand­ing of the cir­cum­stances as well as a col­lec­tive strat­egy to con­front the cur­rent on­slaught so that we can stop the Pun­jab gov­ern­men­t’s at­tempts at ar­rest­ing our youth.”

“We should unit­edly and in­tel­li­gently use all le­gal re­course to stop ha­rass­ment and arrange for le­gal aid for all de­tained with­out fear or favour.”

“We should unit­edly and in­tel­li­gently use all le­gal re­course to stop ha­rass­ment and arrange for le­gal aid for all de­tained with­out fear or favour.”

Strik­ing a his­tor­i­cal re­li­gious note, the de­vout re­li­gious lead­ers and stead­fast ac­tivists who have borne the brunt of the In­dian state for long said, “Khalsa Panth has al­ways per­se­vered through every ob­sta­cle and chal­lenge with the bless­ings of the Guru. The path to com­bat­ing our cur­rent chal­lenges lies in re­turn­ing to our roots and tra­di­tions, en­sur­ing our in­di­vid­ual lives and col­lec­tive ac­tivism are rooted in Gur­mat, and re­main­ing stead­fast in our faith in Guru Granth-Guru Panth.”