Shi­ro­mani Akali Dal de­ci­sion to sup­port the Bhar­tiya Janata Party af­ter an­nounc­ing non-par­tic­i­pa­tion in Delhi As­sem­bly elec­tions on its dif­fer­ence with the party on CAA and NRC, has rat­tled the Sikhs. Dal Khalsa has chas­tised the party and other fac­tions wait­ing in the wings to toe the right-wing BJP. Dal Khalsa also cau­tioned Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and Tak­sali Akali Dal from go­ing the BJP way. 

DAL KHALSA, INA HARD-HIT­TING RE­AC­TION re­ac­tion to var­i­ous Sikh po­lit­i­cal par­ties for lend­ing di­rect or tac­ti­cal sup­port to the BJP in the en­su­ing Delhi as­sem­bly polls sched­uled for Feb­ru­ary 8, Dal Khalsa said the so-called sav­iours of Panth have turned out to be sav­iours of self­ish po­lit­i­cal in­ter­ests.

The Shi­ro­mani Akali Dal and the newly formed Jago Party of Man­jit Singh GK have re­cently an­nounced full sup­port to the BJP.

Party spokesper­son Kan­war Pal Singh said, “What the Badals did with the Sikh Stu­dents Fed­er­a­tions, BJP has done with the SAD. Just as the Badals used state power to cor­rupted fed­er­a­tion lead­ers bring­ing them to their mercy. Af­ter gain­ing ab­solute power, the BJP did the same with Akali lead­ers.”

“Think a thou­sand times be­fore tak­ing the Sukhbir Singh- Man­jit Singh GK route.”

Dal Khalsa cau­tion­ary note to Tak­sali Akali Dal and Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa

“The Sikh Stu­dents Fed­er­a­tion was the cra­dle of Sikh lead­er­ship, a train­ing ground for fu­ture Sikh lead­ers fo­cussed to­wards the wel­fare of the Khalsa Panth. Parkash Singh Badal and his son Sukhbir Singh Badala adopted a rather sin­is­ter and de­vi­ous scheme to dis­in­te­grate the Sikh Stu­dents Fed­er­a­tion in Pun­jab into sev­eral groups through al­lure­ment and arm-twist­ing. Af­ter de­stroy­ing the col­lec­tive youth power, all Fed­er­a­tion fac­tions suc­cumbed to the Badal tac­tics to get their share of space in power, sac­ri­fic­ing all that they stood for and thus strength­ened the Badal’s stran­gle­hold on all Sikh in­sti­tu­tions.”

The BJP has now smashed the Akali bas­tion, splin­ter­ing it into many fac­tions and then dec­i­mat­ing them into sub­mis­sion. “At pre­sent Akali Dal is split into six fac­tions and out of it, four were des­per­ate to get bless­ings of BJP. Some have been lured by BJP gov­ern­men­t’s help dur­ing SGPC and oth­ers in the DS­GMC.

“While mi­nori­ties and re­gional iden­ti­ties across the coun­try are ris­ing in protest against CAA and NRP, the SAD was shame­lessly lean­ing on the BJP dam­ag­ing the in­ter­ests of the Sikh com­mu­nity. “At the time when the tyran­ni­cal regime of Modi-Shah was un­leash­ing bru­tal­ity on stu­dents of Jamia and JNU threat­en­ing their lives, the Akali’s sup­port to BJP has shamed the Sikhs,” said Kan­war Pal Singh

“What the Badals did with the Sikh Stu­dents Fed­er­a­tions, BJP has done with the SAD. Just as the Badals used state power to cor­rupted fed­er­a­tion lead­ers bring­ing them to their mercy. Af­ter gain­ing ab­solute power, the BJP did the same with Akali lead­ers.”

Kan­war Pal Singh said the Akalis have failed the Sikhs as they had mort­gaged Sikh in­ter­ests to the Hin­dutva gov­ern­ment. The irony of the sit­u­a­tion is that de­spite bay­ing for each oth­er’s blood, war­ring Akalis have agreed to work un­der BJP com­mand”.

Ap­pre­hend­ing that the Akali Dal Tak­sali af­fil­i­ate and Akali stal­wart Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa looks mov­ing closer to join­ing BJP’s band­wagon, Dal Khalsa cau­tioned, “Think a thou­sand times be­fore tak­ing the Sukhbir Singh- Man­jit Singh GK route.”