because the truth needs to be told
Rejecting the government of Meghalaya’s un-accommodative stand on relocation, Shillong Sikhs living in the Punjabi Lane area have now appealed to the government to see reason and review their own half-baked blueprint and reiterated their stand to continue to l... More »
“No government authority can evict us from our homes which were nurtured by our forefathers.” “We will live and die in Punjabi Lane.” “Our Homes are our Right.” “The government of Meghalaya is violating our constitutional and fundamental rights.” “We are deter... More »
Caring too hoots for the status quo orders of the High Court of Meghalaya, the National Commission for Minorities and the assurances given by the Governor of Meghalaya to Sikh delegations, in a conspiratorial move involving the Meghalaya government, the tradit... More »
The Deputy Chief Minister of Meghalaya Prestone Tynsong declared yesterday that his government had allocated Rs. 20 million to be given to the traditional authority – the Syiem of Hima Myllieum and take over the land where the poor Sikhs have been living for t... More »
Challenging the recently submitted High-Level Committee report of the BJP-coalition Conrad Sangma Meghalaya government on the ownership of the land of poor Sikhs at Bara Bazar, Shillong, the Harijan Panchayat Committee, representing the interests of the hundre... More »
Since the first attack on poor Sikhs in 2018 in Shillong, when an attempt was made to torch their houses and overawe them, followed by concerted media badgering of Sikhs by local leaders, under state patronage of the BJP-coalition government, the World Sikh Ne... More »
After two years of the Justice Sen order of the High Court of Meghalaya at Shillong, ordering status quo ante in the premises and lives of the poor Sikhs residing in the Bara Bazar area of Shillong for the last two centuries and more, the government of Meghala... More »
National Safai Karamchari Commission -an Indian statutory body formed to monitor the status and situation of people engaged in cleaning roads, clearing waste, manual scavenging and the like, has taken cudgels on behalf of the poor Shillong Sikhs who are facing... More »
When Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong issued a veiled threat today to the poor Shillong Sikhs residing in the Punjabi lane area, also known as Sweepers’ Colony, the Harijan Panchayat Committee retaliated saying that they will not be cowed down ... More »
Responding to the threatening calls to kill them by the militant organisation HNLC, the poor Sikh residents of Punjabi lane, Shillong dashed off an SOS letter to Conrad Sangma -Chief Minister of Meghalaya seeking his government’s immediate intervention to prot... More »
As the local political leadership of the state of Meghalaya ups the ante against the poor Shillong Sikhs, they approach the scholar-governor of the state -Shri Tathagata Roy and present him a list of their woes and seek his urgent intervention to build the Gur... More »