The following
KHALISTAN CALLING newsletter has been published in the leading Punjabi-English newspaper of the Sikh diaspora, Surrey Canada-based
CHARHDI KALA, (Issue of February 27-March 5, 2002 : Vol. 18 : No. 06). (http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/) It was also
published in the first week of February, 2002, in the Vancouver-based PUNJAB
GUARDIAN, Toronto-based SANJH SAVERA, Calgary-based SIKH VIRSA and
numerous other Punjabi/English weekly and monthly publications which cater to
the three million strong Sikh diaspora in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.
It can be viewed on the Khalistan Affairs Centre web site: (http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/main/k_calling/kc02272002.htm) The Overseas Sikhs,
unlike their 20 million compatriots captive in India, are free and prosperous
and they are determined - as they believe it is their destiny and pray for it
every day; Raj Karay Ga Khalsa; Sikhs will rule - to carve
a sovereign, democratic, egalitarian Sikh buffer state of KHALISTAN in
South Asia, stretching from the Jumna river on the East to the Pakistan
border on the West, China on the Northeast and Kashmir on the North.
Khalistan
Calling newsletter dated February 27, 2002.
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RECENT FOURSTATE ELECTIONS IN INDIA A DISASTER
FOR THE HINDU FUNDAMENTALIST BJP AND ITS ALLIES
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Badal Akali Dal/BJP alliance loses Punjab election
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Sirdar Simranjit Singh Mann's clarion call
on the SYL issue
BY
Dr. Amarjit Singh
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Washington DC: February 27, 2002 : The morally repugnant Brahmanical tactics of India's ruling Hindufundamentalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of raising emotive issues before an election (national security, anti-terrorism, Ram Temple, Pakistan, Christian missionaries, SYL canal, etc., etc.,) have misfired and did not work in last week's elections which took place in four Indian states including captive Sikh Punjab, Khalistan.
The elections a disaster for the ruling BJP and its allies - held on February 14, 18 and 21, in the states of Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh (UP), Punjab and Manipur coincided with the largest ever buildup of Indian forces on the Indo/Pakistani border. India's wobbly (slow-motion) and ageing Hindu-fundamentalist Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee himself led a blood-curdling anti-Pakistan campaign. His speeches at public rallies were laced with war-threatening rhetoric. Obviously the senile old man (Vajpayee) does not realize, or does not care, that a war in South Asia, at any point in time even after the elections, would result in the complete destruction of the Sikh Homeland of Punjab, its shrines and its people as it has been, and will be, the battlefield in any Indo/Pakistan war.
The Ram temple bogey of building a 'temple', at Ayodhia, on the site of the Babri Mosque demolished in 1992 by BJPled frenzied Hindu mobs, was also resurrected to attract the 'Hindu' vote. In an unprecidented move, a retired Sikh Air Chief Marshal (85 years old Arjun Singh) was given a fifth 'star/stripe' - the Airforce equivalent of the rank of Field Marshal - after ignoring him for thirty one years, to flatter and fool the Sikh voters of the Punjab. For details on that 'Vajpayee fraud' please see Khalistan Calling dated January 30, 2002, headlined, "A 31 years late 'honour' for a retired Sikh Air Marshal is meant to fool the Sikh nation into a war it does not want": <http://www.khalistanaffairs.org/main/k_calling/kc01302002.htm >
None of these crafty 'Brahmanical' tactics paid off, as the voting results show that the BJP and its allies have been convincingly routed in all the four states. BJP won 3 seats out of 117 in the Punjab, 3 out of 60 in Manipur, 19 out of 70 in Uttaranchel and 109 out of 403 seats in the UP, India's most populous state, which boasts 99 million voters, and is deemed politically the most powerful as eight of India's 12 prime ministers, including Vajpayee, have come from this vast, heartland state of UP watered by the 'holy for Hindus' Ganges River.
The election results are glaring in the three states of UP, Punjab and Uttaranchal where the BJP was in power particularly in the Punjab, where it shared a coalition with Badal's Akali Dal. Although Indian Prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, playing it safe had said before the elections that it was not a referendum on his coalition government in Delhi but the manner and the margin of the BJP's drubbing should be unnerving even for a wily politician like Mr Vajpayee. Since its assumption of power at the centre two years ago, the sphere of influence of the Hindu nationalist party's (BJP's) is being curtailed with every election. Many Indian newspapers have noted that with these setbacks in UP, Uttaranchel and Punjab, the "heart goes out of the 'Atal' land", which is now confined to only five out of 28 states in India. The BJP currently runs the states of Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, has a chief minister in Jharkhand, and rules through alliances in Haryana and Orissa.
The pattern of voting in this election shows an antiincumbency trend but a more revealing aspect of the election results is, the rise of other parties who claim that they are campaigning for secularism and communal harmony, as opposed to the BJP's nationalistic (read fascist) 'saffron' (read Hindu) agenda influenced by the Sangh Privar and dominated by a coterie of Swastika-worshipping, morally repugnant, 70-year olds like Advani, Vajpayee and Joshi and others of that ilk. The Samajwadi Party of Mulayam Singh Yadav, who has strong support among the Muslims and lower Hindu castes of UP, has made major gains and has emerged as the single largest party (146) in UP. The Bahujan Samaj Party of Mayawati, also a champion of the lower castes, has won 97 seats while the Congress party has improved its standing although it trails with 26 seats in the U.P.
The Congress party which ordered the assault on the Darbar Sahib in June 1984 under Indira Gandhi and the anti/Sikh November 1984 pogroms under her son Rajiv Gandhi has unfortunately bagged the coveted state of Punjab with 62 seats, out of 117, from 'Badal's' Akali Dal which is trailing with 44 seats (plus Panthik Morcha-1 and others-9). In the state of Uttaranchal (where the BJP was expecting a handsome victory after giving the region its new status in the Union after ignoring the wishes of the million Sikhs settlers of Udham Singh Nagar district which rich farming district was forcebly included in the new hill state) the BJP was also trounced. In fact, the Congress now runs state governments in eleven states (8 major states) out of 28, eg., Delhi, Kerala, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka and Assam. As it is likely to have its chief ministers in Punjab and Uttaranchal also, the anti/Sikh Congress party, under Italianborn Sonia Gandhi, seems to be moving close to again occupying the centre-stage in national politics soon.
As BJP tacticians sit down to analyse the consequences and causes of their astounding defeat, we doubt if they will ever learn the right lessons. The people of the Punjab and the 'Hindi belt', a traditional stronghold of the BJP, have rejected its grand strategic designs and religionbased politics. The futility of massing armed forces on the border and detonating nuclear weapons is now evident. The Indian voter it seems has shown that he/she is more concerned with the local politics and more interested in promoting social justice and development at home like latrines and clean drinking water for 700 million currently deprived Indians, rather than taking pride in military power and nuclear weapons.
The disatrous fourstates February election, some observors feel, is potentially a destabilising blow to the two-year-old BJP's 22 parties national coalition in Delhi which may fall like the 1999 Vajpayee BJP government which was brought down when an allied party, sensing a change in the political wind, withdrew its support. Be that as it may, the defeat of the corrupt BJP-dominated Badal coalition government in the Punjab is heaven-sent for the people of the Sikh Homeland as Sikh polititians of all hues and colours will NOW have an opportunity to unite and focus on the issue of the defunct SYL canal which effects our children, their children and their children. The SYL canal a dead issue has been revived by two bigoted Hindu judges of the Indian Supreme Court. They have had the chutzpah to resuscitate the issue last January, just before the elections, with an illegal 'advisory/judgment' to the Punjab government to complete the Punjab section of the canal within a year so that water can flow to non-riparian Hindu-majority Haryana. See Khalistan Calling dated February 06, 2002, headlined' "THE BRAHMINS IN DELHI CONSPIRE TO STEAL SUTLEJ RIVER WATER FROM THE SIKH HOMELAND VIA THE SYL CANAL" <http://www.khalistanaffairs.org/main/k_calling/kc02062002.htm >
We endorse Sirdar Simranjit Singh Mann's last Friday's clarian call to resist the Brahmin's SYL canal intrigue to steal Punjab's lifegiving river water (Tribune, February 23, 2002, headlined, "SAD(A) to burn copies of SYL verdict") which invites all likeminded Punjabi parties to, "join hands with his party as Punjab did not have even a drop of spare water which could be given to any (read Haryana) state." Sirdar Simranjit Singh Mann also announced that, "he was ready to face contempt of court due to his assertions against the judgement of the apex court". Bravo! We hope every Sikh will support Sirdar Simranjit Singh Mann in this holy endeavor and make this opportunity into an opportunity to unite.
KHALISTAN
ZINDABAD : LONG LIVE KHALISTAN
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