Dal Khalsa International President Sardar Harcharanjit Singh Dhami,Sardar Harpal Singh Cheema Akali Dal Panch Pardani & Other Panthic Leaders Speak At Panjab Press Club Jalandhar 23rd Sept 2012
Jalandhar/Punjab (September 24, 2012):
Various Social, Political, Religious and Human Rights Organizations of
Punjab have jointly condemned the arrest of Sikh leaders Bhai Kulbir
Singh Barapind (President of Akali Dal Panch Pardhani) and Bhai Daljit
Singh Bittu (Former President of ADPP). Both leaders were arrested by
Punjab police for waging war against the Indian state and notorious
“Unlawful Activities (P) Act” was also lashed against them besides
various other laws.
About a dozen organizations, including
Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar (Mann Dal), Dal Khalsa, Khalsa Action
Committee, SAD (Sutantar), Pandhic Sewa Lehar (Baba Babljeet Singh
Daduwal), Co-ordination Committee for the Disappeared (CCDP), Khalsa
Mission Organization (KMO), Punjab Human Rights Organization (PHRO),
International Human Rights Organization (IHRO), Ek Noor Khalsa Fauj and
Sikh Students Federation, term the arrests of Sikh leaders as
“state-terrorism”.
A joint press conference was held by these organizations at Jalandhar Press Club on September 23, 2012.
Representatives and leaders of these
organizations told media that laws like UAPA are being misused to crush
the political dissent. Badal Dal led Punjab Government and the Indian
state are targeting of Akali Dal Panch Pardhani leaders due to their
political ideology.
Representatives of Human Rights
Organizations informed media that in this Arms Act and Explosives Act is
clamped without any recovery, which amounts to sheer misuse of Law.
It was further told that ADPP was
working democratically among the masses while emphasising on importance
of distinctiveness and uniqueness of Sikh identity and securing respect
for “Shabad Guru” but the ruling regimes are working to dilute Sikh
identity and are encouraging deras to harm the concept of Shabad Guru,
and this is the basic reason behind repeated arrests of ADPP leaders,
especially Bhai Daljit Singh Bittu.
According to information Bhai Daljit
Singh was charged in more than two dozen false cases by Union and state
governments in India but he is never convicted in any case. Recently he
was acquitted on three different counts of sedition (Sec. 124-A, IPC) as
the trial courts found that charges of sedition were ill-founded
against him. Due to these false cases he had to spend more than 12 years
in various prisons in India without any conviction.
On this occasion former IAS S. Gurtej
Singh, Dal Khalsa chief Harcharanjit Singh Dhami, Bhai Dhian Singh Mand
Senior Vice President of SAD (Mann) and former MP, Parmjeet Singh Saholi
President of SAD (Sutantar), Khalsa Action Committee Co-ordinator Bhai
Mohkam Singh, ADPP Leaders Bhai Harpal Singh Cheema, Bhai Amrik Singh
Isru, Baldev Singh Sirsa, Jasvir Singh Khandur, Mandhiar Singh, Panthic
Sewa Lehar’s representative Baba Pardeep Singh Chandpura, Khalra Mission
Organizations representative Harmandeep Singh Sarhali, Harshinder Singh
(CCDP), D.S. Gill (IHRO), Gurbachan Singh (PHRO), Senior Journalist
Dalbir Singh Ganna, Jatinder Singh Isru (Ek Noor Khalsa Fauj) and
Parmjeet Singh (Sikh Students Federation) addressed the press and
condemned the arrests of Sikh leaders in strong terms.
