De­spite be­ing proven a de­bauch by the ju­di­ciary and in spite of over­whelm­ing ev­i­dence of his un­law­ful ap­proach to polic­ing, KPS Gill was a dar­ling of the In­dian state and the In­dian me­dia. All In­dian news­pa­pers, in­clud­ing the Tri­bune, do not spare a chance to eu­lo­gise his ‘mon­u­men­tal con­tri­bu­tion’ to­wards peace in Pun­jab. He was the worst hu­man rights vi­o­la­tor of the last cen­tury in Pun­jab. His legacy is be­ing for­warded by his son-in-law Ajay Sahni through his writ­ings, who uses prime space eas­ily pro­vided by The Tri­bune to float un­founded sto­ries of “Sikh Ter­ror­ism”. In a sharp re­ac­tion, Dal Khalsa spokesper­son Kan­war Pal Singh re­buts his per­verted logic and pre­sents the Sikh na­tion­al­ist view­point.

FIRST, they called us Khal­is­ta­nis. Now they have added the word “Ter­ror­ists”. First, they blamed Pak­istan for sup­port­ing us. Now Canada is also on the list.  First, they sought sanc­tions against Pak­istan. Now they pro­pose the same with Canada.

All this is be­ing done to ma­lign the Sikh im­age world­wide and to por­tray the Sikhs as mind­less and vi­o­lent per­sons.

The write-up “Canada’s dou­ble game” car­ried in the columns of ‘The Tri­bune’ is a de­lib­er­ate and will­ful at­tempt to por­tray the Sikh strug­gle for the right to self-de­ter­mi­na­tion as a de­sign of some for­eign forces.

The writer of this ar­ti­cle Ajay Sahni, who heads In­sti­tute for Con­flict Man­age­ment, is the son-in-law of for­mer Pun­jab po­lice chief KPS Gill, no­to­ri­ous as the Butcher of Pun­jab.

While Gill harmed the Sikhs phys­i­cally by us­ing ex­tra-ju­di­cial vi­o­lent means, his son-in-law is ma­lign­ing the im­age of Sikhs with his pen. The ar­ti­cle car­ried by The Tri­bune on its opin­ion page has stereo­type al­le­ga­tions against Sikhs in tune with the Pun­jab pol­icy of the In­dian state.

The con­tent of the ar­ti­cle is full of hate nur­tured by the writer and his men­tors against Sikhs. He goes ham­mer and tongs against Canada with­out any proof what­so­ever, in the same vein as the Chief Min­is­ter of Pun­jab. Not sur­pris­ingly, he has a word of praise for Chief Min­is­ter Cap­tain Amarinder Singh, who has once again started his anti-Canada di­a­tribe by urg­ing Modi dis­pen­sa­tion to ap­proach the United Na­tions and seek sanc­tions against Canada.

https://​www.tri­bunein­dia.com/​news/​com­ment/​canada-s-dou­ble-game/​792127.html

By con­tin­u­ously ques­tion­ing the cre­den­tials of Cana­dian Prime Min­is­ter Justin Trudeau and his cab­i­net col­leagues, a sec­tion of In­dian me­dia and Pun­jab CM Cap­tain Amarinder Singh has re­peat­edly of­fended the po­lit­i­cal sen­si­bil­i­ties of Canada -a Com­mon­wealth as­so­ci­ate of In­dia- and un­leashed a tirade against the Sikh Di­as­pora which has been mak­ing the right moves on Cana­dian soil, rais­ing hu­man rights con­cern and en­dors­ing the call for the right to self-de­ter­mi­na­tion.

In­dian politi­cians refuse to recog­nise that Canada is known for its open, ma­ture and vi­brant democ­racy. While in In­dia the right to free­dom of ex­pres­sion and to hold in­de­pen­dent thoughts is only on pa­per, in coun­tries like Canada, it is prac­tised in let­ter and spirit.

The the­o­ries and al­le­ga­tions about the Kan­ishka bomb­ing are oft-re­peated and still base­less. No­body is sure, even af­ter 35 years, who ex­e­cuted the bomb­ing and why?

Let’s be clear: The Sikh strug­gle has clearly de­fined agenda. We have our right­ful as­pi­ra­tions. We have a po­lit­i­cal cause to fight for. Pun­jab be­longs to all its cit­i­zens, be it Hin­dus, Mus­lims, Chris­tians, Dal­its or Sikhs. We give re­spect to all and we ex­pect the same from them.

We don’t be­lieve in sense­less and ar­bi­trary vi­o­lence as like the one per­pe­trated by the In­dian gov­ern­ment in Pun­jab, Kash­mir and the North-east.

The Pun­jab con­flict needs a po­lit­i­cal res­o­lu­tion as per the as­pi­ra­tions of the peo­ple, but cer­tainly, not one bro­kered or sug­gested by KPS Gill-in­spired In­sti­tute of Con­flict Man­age­ment.

Sikhs strongly be­lieve that the in­ter­na­tional com­mu­nity and In­dian civil so­ci­ety have a role to play for last­ing peace in this re­gion.