Why Sikhs shouldn't celebrate Indian Independence Day

[alamgir]

WHY SIKHS SHOULDN'T CELEBRATE INDIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY15 August marks India's Independence Day and prolongs the suffering of the Sikhs. We are clear about our nationhood, but it is denied by the Indian State and the Indian political class which are not prepared to allow us basic rights.

Sikh sacrifices for freedom

Prior to independence Sikhs were less than 1.5% of the population, but their contribution to the freedom struggle was immense. 77% of those sent to the gallows were Sikh as were 81% of those sentenced to life imprisonment. During the Quit India Movement many indiscriminate arrests were made and Sikhs contributed 70% of the total Punjabis arrested. More than 60% of the 20,000 who joined the Indian National Army were Sikhs.

100-150 million refugees resulted from partition in August 1947 with 40% of all Sikhs becoming refugees. Partition resulted in up to 2 million people being murdered and another 10-50 million being injured.

Sikhs betrayed and promises broken

India's founding fathers gave numerous solemn promises that the Sikhs freedom and dignity would be safeguarded. Jawaharlal Nehru said that "the brave Sikhs of Punjab are entitled to special consideration. I see nothing wrong in an area set up in the north of India wherein the Sikhs can also experience the glow of freedom". These promises were conveniently forgotten after independence and the Sikhs were dismissively told by the same Nehru that the "circumstances had now changed".

Sikhs have rejected India's Constitution

Mahatma [Mai's note: Can we call him 'Mohandas,' his name, and drop this spurious title?] Gandhi and Nehru gave the Sikhs assurances that after India achieves political freedom no Constitution shall be framed by the majority community unless it is freely acceptable to the Sikhs. This promise was repeated throughout the period up to independence. When the Constitution was produced in 1950 it failed to deliver any safeguards or political rights for the Sikhs as a people or nation. The Sikhs therefore refused to sign the Constitution and have never accepted it. Article 25 even denies Sikhism, the fifth largest faith in the world, separate recognition as a religion – an affront that is widely seen as a deliberate act of suppression of the Sikhs.

Demands for greater autonomy were dismissed

The Indian authorities have systematically discriminated against the Sikhs since 1947 and subverted or suppressed all legitimate political demands for greater autonomy. The Anandpur Sahib Resolution of 1973 set out the basis on which the Sikhs were prepared to accept a political union within India, as a federal state. This demand for internal self-determination was pursued through decades of peaceful protest and attempts at negotiation with the central government. The demands were never seriously considered and given the history of the conflict between the Sikhs and India since 1984, this would now be too little too late.

Gross violation of Sikh human rights

In the last 30 years the Indian authorities have unleashed a rein of terror through gross violation of human rights of Sikhs in an attempt to extinguish the calls for freedom and Sikh independence.
In June 1984 the Indian army attacked the Golden Temple Complex and 125 other Sikh Gurdwaras in Punjab and massacred tens of thousands of innocent Sikh pilgrims. This laid the foundation stone for an independent sovereign Sikh State, Khalistan.

In November 1984 tens of thousands of innocent Sikhs were massacred in Delhi and over 130 other cities throughout India by well-orchestrated mobs under the direct supervision of senior Indian politicians and officials.

Over 250,000 Sikhs have been murdered and disappeared since 1984. Many Sikh political prisoners still languish in Indian jails without charge or trial and others have been falsely charged and sentenced to death by hanging. Illegal detention and torture of Sikhs is common place and well documented by independent human rights organisations.

[The Wisdom Tree]

Question to you : who is the current PM of a democratic India?

[Asim Aquil]

One puppet in the exchange of thousands dead?

[alamgir]

Originally Posted by The Wisdom Tree

Question to you : who is the current PM of a democratic India?

if am not wrong one of president of india was dalit,but he did nothing to safe dalit from dicimination of high cast

[Adux]

Wisdom Tree,

How much wisdom do you need to acquire before you start seeing people for what they are

[Adux]

Originally Posted by Asim Aquil

One puppet in the exchange of thousands dead?

Yes, that is the case

Prime Minister of India is a puppet.lol

[Asim Aquil]

Kalaam became President after the 2002 violence as a show piece that India believes in diversification.

Figureheads. MM Singh takes his orders from the elite Gandhi family and the rest of the powerful Congress parties. He's also not really getting re-elected.

[Samudra]

Kalaam became President after the 2002 violence as a show piece that India believes in diversification.

No, he was made President because the BJP and the country loved him. We gave him the Bharat Ratna before any Hindu massacre triggred riots engulfed Gujarat.

[intruder]

Wonder !! country run by feudal system and these very person will do anything to keep there hegemony even if means disintegrating the national thread tell us we have puppets in our government. Strange world !!

[intruder]

I remember TV advert of washing powder ' thumari kameej meri kameej se safed kaise '

[The Wisdom Tree]

Originally Posted by Asim Aquil

He's also not really getting re-elected.

Now saying that requires some amazing feat of cynicism, I would think.

First, you don't even accept that he is democratically elected PM already, and you then claim that since he can not become a PM again - it oh so clearly shows the sikh-hating-indians real truth!!



We're taught loving all religions (in our schools atleast), somethin you lil friends probably are unaware of as a concept.

There is no denying that there is a history, and it doesnt just die down. And for that matter, look at your own first.

[The Wisdom Tree]

Originally Posted by Adux

Wisdom Tree,

How much wisdom do you need to acquire before you start seeing people for what they are

he he he, caught me there, Adux.

I am banking upon my theory of existence of rationale in human beings in general. And Pakistan's "awaam" should definitely have it (minus the suicidal fanatics, talibs, mullahs etc - who nobody cares about, including themselves)

[malaymishra123]

Originally Posted by Asim Aquil

Kalaam became President after the 2002 violence as a show piece that India believes in diversification.

Figureheads. MM Singh takes his orders from the elite Gandhi family and the rest of the powerful Congress parties. He's also not really getting re-elected.

How mad can you get Asim?
Do you know how much former President Kalam was loved in India? Do you know why he got unanimous support from all political parties? If not, then please dont try to impose your view as being correct.

[Marathaman]

Originally Posted by Asim Aquil

Kalaam became President after the 2002 violence as a show piece that India believes in diversification.

Figureheads. MM Singh takes his orders from the elite Gandhi family and the rest of the powerful Congress parties. He's also not really getting re-elected.

You just don't get it do you. Teenagers in India literally worship Kalam. They have posters of him in their rooms. He's our most loved and respected President ever. He was begged by Indians all over the country to accept another term as president.

Don't try and undermine what Kalam has done for this country, and his immense contributions as a President. You won't even touch him.


Mr. Singh is a very capable PM. Much more capable than any Pakistan PM for, well, quite a long time.

[Marathaman]

Originally Posted by SOLDIER

because they know the mentality of the indians....indians have one aim to show Muslims and Sikhs a terrorist or cruel in their films due to which they become to dislike them..

Hehe.

Oh ****. Why am I even bothering to reply to this.