INDIA'S WATER WARS WITH PUNJAB OVER THE SYL CANAL
Five lower caste Central Govt. Indian ministers write Open Letter to PM Vajpayee and ask why ONLY one out of 26 Supreme Court judges is from the lower castes who make up 75% of India's population
Washington, D.C., Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - The government of Non-riparian Haryana state has submitted an 'Action Plan' to the Indian Supreme Court on the SYL (Sutlej-Yumna-Link) canal project in response to its earlier, July 28, 2003, order, to Haryana state to specify a plan of action, to complete that waterway inside Punjab. See Khalistan Calling dated July 30, 2003, headlined, "Indian Supreme Court's 2 member bench gives Haryana State a carte blanche to specify a plan of action on the SYL canal issue within three weeks", at: www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/2003/july20.aspx.According to reports the Haryana "Action Plan" submitted to the Supreme Court last week proposes the setting up of a five member committee, consisting of Chief Secretaries of Punjab and Haryana, the Union Home, Cabinet and Water Resources Secretaries. The Union Cabinet Secretary will preside according to the proposal. All of the members are bureaucrats, glorified 'Babus', and one could easily assume that all are anti/Sikh Brahmin-fundamentalists! The deck is stacked for sure against Punjab, four to one, and if the Chief secretary of Punjab were to perforn a somersault for some 'consideration' or ethnicity or some other reason this Committee of Babus will come out with a unanimous decision against Punjab's children and their children's future and bequeth our life-giving river water to Haryana where the second state language is not Punjabi but TAMIL. Yes Tamil!
The state of Haryana has also suggested in the 'Action Plan' that the SYL canal inside Punjab should be constructed not by the Punjab government but by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) in consultation with the Central Water Commission (CWC) both organizations run by a bevy of bigoted Brahmins.
The Supreme Court bench (consisting of two anti/Sikh Brahmin-caste judges) who heard the Haryana 'Action Plan' have given the Punjab government (and the Central government) four weeks - till September 15, 2003 - to give their views on the Haryana state's diabolical 'Action Plan'. The Haryana government will then have two weeks after that - till September 29, 2003 - to react to the reaction and views of the Punjab and Central governments and present its (Haryana's) arguments to the Supreme Court bench of two bigoted anti/Sikh judges who are behind the whole conspiracy. Nice and tidy!
Wrote the great English playwright and poet William Shakespeare (1564-1616 A.D.) in Measure for Measure, "He who the sword of heaven shall bear should be as holy as severe". Shakespeare was writing about the ideal situation where incorruptable learned judges, selected on merit, who are supposed to be honourable and fair. Shakespeare had no idea of the world's largest Castocracy - India - and its twenty six member musical chairs bigoted Supreme Court where they have never heard the word integrity and have been appointed, not on merit but because they are from the Brahmin upper caste and are somebody's other-in-law.
In fact five junior ministers, belonging to the lower castes, who are members of the BJP coalition, under Prime minister Pundit Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the central government in Delhi, have released to the media, a few days ago, an OPEN letter they have written to the Prime minister asking why twenty five judges of the Indian Supreme Court, out of twenty six, are from the Brahmin caste which caste numbers no more than three percent of the Indian population of over one billion. There is ONLY one judge from the lower castes, the Open Letter said, when these lower castes make up seventy five percent of the Indian population. That letter released by the central minister for state for Railways, Mr. Bandaru Dattatraya, was signed by four other ministers, Messrs A. K. Murthy, Prahlad Singh Patel, Santosh Gangwar and Hukumdev Narayan Yadav.
The letter reads, "The dismal representation of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and other backward classes in the higher judiciary (Supreme Court etc.,) is a matter of serious concern for all right thinking citizens. Out of twenty six judges of the Indian Supreme Court ONLY one was from the lower castes. In many State High Courts there is not even a single judge from the lower castes."
It is obvious that Punjab CANNOT expect any fair play from the two member bench of the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice G. B. Pattanaik and Ms. Justice Ruma Pal, who will hear Punjab's arguments on September 15, 2003.
Today's English Tribune carries an appeal from a Punjabi member of the Rajya Sabha, Mr. Ashwani Kumar, which he made in Gurdaspur. It says that, " all political parties in the state should form a front to impress upon the Centre to protect Punjab’s interests regarding the SYL canal. He sought SAD-BJP combine’s help to the Congress government to protect Punjab’s interests. He made it clear that Punjab had no water to spare. He said more than 600 farmers died during SAD-BJP rule due to poor economic conditions and if the SYL canal was completed to give water to Haryana, plight of Punjab farmers would worsen.We urge all Punjabis to stand together." End quote.
We appreciate this appeal from a Punjabi with a vision and hope that Punjab Chief minister Captain Amrinder Singh will provide leadership in this vital matter and unite all shades of the polity under one standard.
NOTE: As a backgrounder for any Punjabi scholor or activist or patriot who may be interested in researching the SYL issue, we have appended below all the Khalistan Calling's we have written since March of 1999:-
www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/2002/january23.aspx
www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/2002/december04.aspx
www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/2002/october23.aspx
www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/2002/september11.aspx
www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/2002/september04.aspx
www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/2002/august07.aspx
www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/2002/july31.aspx
www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/2002/july24.aspx
www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/2002/march27.aspx
www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/2002/february06.aspx
www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/2002/january23.aspx
www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/2001/september05.aspx
www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/2001/august21.aspx
www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/2001/june20.aspx
www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/1999/april14.aspx
www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/1999/march17.aspx