In a well-con­sid­ered re­ac­tion on the demise of for­mer In­dian Prime Min­is­ter and BJP leader A B Va­j­payee, Dal Khalsa spokesper­son Kan­warpal Singh said that death was in­evitable for every­one. Va­j­pay­ee’s death has trig­gered bit­ter mem­o­ries of his at­ti­tude to­wards Sikhs, said he. 

“It re­minds us as to how he led BJP’s pro­test­ers 3 May 1984 in Delhi urg­ing the Cen­tral gov­ern­ment to send the In­dian army to “lib­er­ate Golden Tem­ple from anti-na­tional peo­ple.” In Au­gust 1984, he jus­ti­fied as­sault and rubbed salt on our wounds by say­ing that, “this at­tack should have hap­pened six months back.” In 1999, dur­ing ter­cente­nary cel­e­bra­tions of Khalsa Panth, as In­dian Prime Min­is­ter, he re­leased a Ru­per 100 crore grant to RSS to pen­e­trate into Sikh rank and file un­der the pre­text of the cel­e­bra­tions, which was used by the RSS to un­leash cul­tural ter­ror­ism against Sikhs.

And of course, his role to­wards the Mus­lim mi­nor­ity in the coun­try and Gu­jarat, in par­tic­u­lar, is an­other tale of his bias against a par­tic­u­lar sec­tion of peo­ple of In­dia, stated Singh in a state­ment re­leased to the me­dia.

Atal Bi­hari Va­j­payee was cre­mated with full state ho­n­ours to­day at Sm­riti Sthall, New Delhi with the full In­dian lead­er­ship and dig­ni­taries from var­i­ous coun­tries at­tend­ing the last rites.

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Chandi­garh, Pun­jab, 17 Au­gust 2018, WSN Bu­reau