Let me clear the air with this thread.
As a kid I used to listen about Khalistan and why Sikhs need to have a separate country for themselves, this was the post 1984 era. The Sikh community was shattered with Bhindrawala taking shelter in Hari Mandir Sahab and using this sacred
place to fight against the state, operation blue Star followed by the the assassination of Indira Gandhi and the anti sikh riots that followed.
The radicals tried to brainwash every young Sikh to feel that the only solution to the problem was a separate Sikh state as Hindu India
was killing Sikhs.
Growing up we realised that this theory that was being fed to the Sikh youth was far from reality.
This entire nation belongs to us all and there could no better place for Sikhs to live than India.
The reason why terrorism in Punjab ended was because the
local Sikhs understood the designs and rejected the Khalistani ideology. Punjab Police which comprised majority of Sikhs crushed the Pakistan sponsored and aided terrorism in Punjab.
Those terrorists who escaped to US Canada, Pakistan wanted this fire to continue but Sikhs now
were more focused on other things that dragging this dead bogey of Khalistan with them.
When in US I saw the picture of few dead terrorists inside the langar Hall of a Gurudwara, I objected to this in front of the Gurudwara President. They ensured that I don't visit that
Gurudwara again.
Guru Gobind Singh ji sacrificed his entire clan for this nation and not for a piece of land called Khalistan. There is no mention of this name in any of Sikh scripture and this "istan" has more to do with Istan of Pakistan.
Fast forward to this, I as an
individual has always supported the demands of our farmers, not because they are Sikhs or Punjabis. Trust me on this when in Punjab, they even don't treat Sikhs from Kashmir as Equal, we are called Brahamins ( and I am proud of my ancestors being Bharamins and I am equally proud
of being a Sikh of Guru Gobind Singh).
Farmers are citizens of this country and have every right for peaceful protest, but the events that unfolded on Jan 26 is unacceptable to any right minded Indian. Nobody has the right to desecrate our national flag and the place for Nishan
Sahab is Gurudwara not Lal Kila, the perpetrators who brought a bad name for Sikhs by dragging the religious symbol of Sikh faith must be identified and punished as per the law of the land. Nobody, I repeat nobody has the right to vitiate peace, violate the sanctity of our
national flag. No individual, no cause, no religion is bigger than my India and no religious symbol is important than the symbols of my nation.
But it also hurts to see people calling to ban Kirpan, raising aspersions on the entire Sikh faith.
Today the Khalistanis and those
forces who hate India must he having the last laugh as they must be feeling that they have succeeded in creating the wedge between the two communities.
Don't fall into their trap as this is the time to show solidarity, we all stand against any type of violence and the only thing
that unites is our tricolor.
At last
Yes Hell with Khalistan
And Hell with Khalistanis.
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