Last October, historic Baradari & Ramgarhia Bunga built by Maharajah Ranjit Singh in the Hazur Sahib complex, were bulldozed under cover of night after protesting Sikhs had been dispersed with rifle fire by Maharashtra Police, a company of which was deployed inside the Hazur Sahib complex under the direct command of the then Director General of Police, one P. S. Pasricha, a ‘K.P.S. Gill’ clone, who at that point in time, had also been rewarded with an appointment to concurrently hold the post

The October 2007 Tehleka magazine carried a ‘history sheet’ of P.S. Pasricha’s massive corruption and greed which expose has remained unchallenged to date

Diaspora Sikhs ought to be wary of the cultural genocide being carried out in and around Takht Hazur Sahib in Maharashtra & should watch out for Indian agents provocateurs touring N. America soliciting funds which will be used to destroy Sikh heritage structures

 

The Indian rulers have been feverishly trying to implement the above mentioned fascist agenda by claiming that the world’s 26 million monotheistic and egalitarian Sikhs – who believe in one supreme being and have a distinct religious identity – are a branch of polytheistic caste-ridden Brahminism/ Hinduism whose followers believe in, and pray to, hundreds of millions of gods.  Brahminism is a cruel philosophy which condemns many fellow human beings to a life of misery and squalor as ‘Untouchables’ (less than human) which downtrodden group, even at this point in time, numbers no less than two hundred million unfortunate unwashed souls  (> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0602_030602_untouchables.html    <)  in India. 

Indian rulers, in cahoots with Maharashtras’s Neo-Nazi Shiv Sena-dominated ruling elite, and with help from a ‘fifth column’ among the Sikhs, are hoping to ‘clean up’ in and around Takht Hazur Sahib in Nanded, Maharashtra) by implementing their agenda, of cultural genocide, during the celebrations of the 300^th anniversary of Guru Granth sahib Gurgaddi Divas when millions of Sikh pilgrims are expected to visit Takht Hazur Sahib in Nanded Maharashtra. This is an agenda which wants to prove to the world (and most importantly to  some gullible and illiterate Sikhs) that egalitarian and monotheistic Sikhism is a branch of polytheistic Hindutva and Sikh practices in the gurdwaras are similar to those performed by Hindus in their temples. That is why a lot of treasure and Hindu effort has been spent on the Durgiana temple which is being built, in Amritsar, for the past more than half century. This Durgiana temple is an architectural copy of the Harmandar Sahib – known in the West as the ‘Golden Temple’.

Cultural genocide is a term used to describe the deliberate destruction of the cultural heritage of a people or nation for political, military, religious, ideological, ethnical, or racial reasons. The term Cultural genocide was coined in 1944 by one Raphael Lemkin, a man who knew of which he spoke, since he escaped from Poland shortly before the German Nazis took over his country in the 1940’s. According to Lemkin, genocide is not necessarily something which happens all at once; it can be extremely gradual but still aimed at the end goal of total annihilation. This can make genocide difficult to identify at times, because it may be well advanced by the time outside observers realize what is happening.

This brings this discussion back to Takht Hazur Sahib which will be in the news during the celebrations of the 300^th anniversary of Guru Granth sahib Gurgaddi Divas. With the nasty aim of cultural genocide in mind the crafty Indian rulers have, over the years, made the pliable ‘Sikh priests’, in the Takht Hazur Sahib, reject the Sikh Rehat Maryada and Nanakshai calendar. (>  http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050105/punjab1.htm  <) Now they have even challenged the supremacy (>  http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080609/punjab1.htm  <) of Akal Takht Sahib. These ‘government friendly’ Sikh priests have made sure that a number of Brahmanical practices like ‘Havan’ (fire worship) and Aarti, etc., continue in Nanded. They have even created a sanctum sanctorum inside the main building of Takht Hazur Sahib (a la the practice in many Hindu temples) where no Sikh pilgrim may enter except the one nominated ‘Sikh’ priest who it is claimed is the 31^st descendent of the first  ‘priest’ who had been permitted entry, centuries ago, so it is claimed.

Under the handy ‘excuse umbrella’ of celebrating the 300^th anniversary of Guru Granth sahib Gurgaddi Divas the administrators of Takht Hazur sahib have destroyed, and are destroying, irreplaceable historical Sikh heritage structures, in and around Takht Hazur sahib complex, in the name of modernization and beautification. India’s prestigious OUTLOOK magazine, in its issue of MAY 5, 2008, in an article headlined, ‘Have You The Eyes For It? Heritage Mauled,’ reported that, “In the dead of the night, sometime in October last year, (2007) police surrounded the historic baradari at Hazoor Sahib in Nanded, Maharashtra, built during Maharaja Ranjit Singh's reign. Under the watchful eye of the police, the once-magnificent structure was bulldozed to the ground… What happened at Nanded in October and before that in January 2007, when another historic structure in the complex, the Ramgarhia Bunga, was similarly demolished, leading to rioting by local Sikhs and police firing.” The stationing of Maharashtra Police, inside Takht Hazur Sahib complex, and the firing on Sikh protestors was ordered by none other than the then Director General of Maharashtra police one Parvinder Singh Pasricha. No one knows how many Sikhs were murdered that night, and how many were injured, in that Police firing inside the Takht Hazur Sahib complex?

Who, suits the Indian government better to supervise the above nasty plans, for Takht Hazur Sahib, than a corrupt, but loyal, ‘Sikh’ Director General of Maharashtra police, (now retired) Parvinder Singh Pasricha, a ‘K.P.S. Gill’ ‘zamir-farosh’ clone? While holding the post of Director General  of Maharashtra Police, P.S. Pasricha was concurrently also made the Chairman of the Hazoor Sahib Gurudwara Board as well. He was given the reward of the Chairmanship despite the fact that he had gained notoriety in October 2007, when the TEHELKA magazine, of October 20, 2007, carried a ‘history sheet’ of Pasricha’s massive corruption and greed for real estate.in a well-researched cover-page article headlined, “Top Cop Caught. Sting Cam expose`.” This comprehensive Tehelka expose` of Pasricha’s corruption and greed for real estate  (> http://www.tehelka.com/story_main29.asp?filename=Ne210407Top_cop_CS.asp <) seems to be based on facts as it remains unchallenged to-date.

Now this tarnished Chairman of the Hazur Sahib Gurdwara Board, P. S. Pasricha, the K.P.S. Gill clone, (who ordered the firing on Sikh protestors inside the Takht Hazur Sahib complex last year) has the shameless audacity to embark on a tour of North America. The aim being to collect donations, from generous Sikh diaspora devotees, so that he could go back and demolish what ever little Sikh heritage structures has survived his earlier vandalism and greed for real estate in the Takht Hazur Sahib complex.