The Fact News Service
Amritsar, June 6
Hundreds of energetic Sikh youth led by Dal Khalsa yesterday marched through the lanes of Amritsar carrying Khalistani flags, photographs of damaged Akal Takhat and Sikh fighters, declares June 6 as a Khalistan Day.
A large gathering demonstrators raised slogans of Azaadi and eulogising the martyrs of June 84 army attack on Darbar Sahib, they rededicated themselves to their mission for Khalistan.
Covering 5 kms of the distance the March started from Burj Akali Phoola Singh, under the nomenclature of Holocaust remembrance parade culminated at Darbar Sahib where Ardas was performed in memory of all those killed during the army assault.
We are undertaking a Holocaust remembrance parade in Amritsar to pay homage to Sikh heroes who fought till their last breath, and to tell the government of India that we have neither forgotten nor will forgive perpetrators of the attack,” said party president Harpal Singh Cheema.
The party’s youth spokesperson Paramjit Singh Mand, while addressing the enthusiastic crowd, said that today’s huge and massive gathering is a response to Union Home Minister Amit Shah who said that there is no Khalistan movement in Punjab.
He said that we via media invited Amit Shah to come to Punjab in the first week of June to see that the ideology of Khalistan in Punjab is safe and etched in the hearts of Sikhs. He said that the Home Minister himself did not come, but we hope that through the officials of the central intelligence agencies standing here, he will get the correct and real picture of the strength of the Khalistan movement. He said that in future any Indian leader should assess the ground reality before commenting on Khalistan.
The hardliner Sikh group also called for an ‘Amritsar shutdown’ on June 6 to protest against the assault codenamed ‘Operation Bluestar’.
The shutdown call is for business establishments, traders, banking, petrol pumps, and educational institutions while there would be no stoppage of transportation,” said Kanwar Pal Singh, secretary political affairs of Dal Khalsa.
SAD ( Amritsar) leader Emaan Singh Mann said “The mission of the martyrs was to liberate Punjab from Indian domination. We are determined to pursue the mission to its logical conclusion using right to self-determination,” said he.
SGPC member Karnail Singh Panjoli said the Indian state has not learned the lessons even after four decades. The anti-Sikh mindset still persists and so are the policies to crush the Sikh aspirations for azaadi. He said the recent arrest of Sikh youths under NSA and lodged at Dibrugarh jail is a glaring example that Narendra Modi Sarkar is no less brutal and repressive than Indira Gandhi regime.
