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following KHALISTAN CALLING newsletter has been published in the leading Punjabi-English
newspaper of the Sikh diaspora, Surrey Canada-based CHARHDI KALA, (Issue of April 18 - 24, 2001 : Vol. 17 ; No. 16). It
was also published in the second week of April 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. The Overseas Sikhs, unlike their 19 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 April 20, 2001.
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PUNJAB
VILLAGERS OPPOSE NUCLEAR PLANT NEAR PATIALA
IN INDIAN
OCCUPIED PUNJAB KHALISTAN
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INDIA FUDGES 2001
CENSUS FIGURES &
gets caught red-handed
BY
Dr. Amarjit Singh
956-National Press Building, Washington DC 20045
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Washington DC: April 20, 2001: The proposal of the Union/State governments
to revive a 1982 plan - when the site was surveyed - to set up a nuclear plant
near village DARAULI in District
Patiala of Sikh Punjab (first reported in the Khalistan Calling of February 28, 2001 – http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/main/k_calling/kc02282001.htm)
has the residents of the area up in arms
against the proposed nuclear facility and they are asking as to why Punjab
Chief minister Parkash Singh Badal does not build the plant in his own
constituency of Lambi?
According
to Indian press reports (Times of India
& Hindu of April 08, 2001) the
villagers are convinced that the nuclear plant would be "hazardous and
ruinous to them and therefore the villagers have formed a group to launch an
agitation." The Times of India reports that; "all the village
panchayats have passed a unanimous resolution urging the government NOT to go
ahead with the project. In fact, a 25-member apex committee has been
constituted by the villagers to evolve a strategy to counter the move. The
committee has already had a series of meetings and is trying to seek support
from all political parties specially the local MP Parneet Kaur. Some villagers
have also visited with the people living near the Narora nuclear plant in Uttar
Pradesh where villagers living near the facility have confided their fears and
troubles."
According
to the HINDU newspaper - also of
April 08 - Buta Singh the Numbardar of Darauli
village (which has a population of five thousand) claims that a nuclear plant
would dislocate about 50,000 persons in 25 nearby villages, which are located
in an area prone to floods in the monsoon season. The newspaper reports that
the local MP, Parneet Kaur, is also opposed to the nuclear plant and quotes her
as saying that; "Nuclear power plants are hazardous and prohibitive. Even
the developing countries are winding them up for environmental reasons and the
cost too is prohibitive. Also why go for a nuclear power plant in this region
when unlimited hydro-electric power potential remains untapped in neighboring Himachel Pradesh and dozens of minor
hydel power projects could be started in Punjab
itself?"
According
to our sources in the Punjab the Darauli
village anti-nuclear committee is planning to submit a petition to the United
Nations through the New Delhi embassy of the five permanent UN Security Council
members - China, France, Russia, UK and the US against the proposed nuclear
plant as every
Sikh wants India to roll back its nuclear program and declare his Punjab
homeland a Nuclear free zone. We urge Chief minister Badal to pay heed
to the villagers (and this column) as a civilian nuclear plant in the Punjab is
not in the interest of the Sikh nation because a civilian nuclear facility will
only legitimize Indian nuclear military bases in Punjab which are endangering
Sikh holy shrines (see April 4 Khalistan
Calling http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/main/k_calling/kc04042001.htm) and putting these Sikh holy
sites at risk as targets for India's nuclear-armed neighbors.
In
an unrelated development the Hindustan
Times yesterday (April 16, 2001) has published an opinion piece by a
Stanford university scholar, Jacques E. C. Hymans, headlined; "Inside a bomb shell" in which the
writer questions the legitimacy of the Indian nuclear program and asks a
question:- "Since India explosively announced its decision to become a
'nuclear power' in May 1998, the Indian elites have been asking themselves the
same question: what in the world does being a 'nuclear power' get you?"
Hyman's
Hindustan Times piece (which does not
mention that India had miscalculated that Pakistan's nuclear programme was not
a bluff) states that; "The (Indian) government's primary initial
rationales for going nuclear were of an old-fashioned nature: deterrence and
compellence. But these rationales soon proved hollow: a) the idea that an
Indian nuclear arsenal would provide military and diplomatic cover for a policy
of 'hot pursuit' in Kashmir hardly lasted a week. Days after the tests, the UN
Security Council rebuffed India by calling for international mediation over
Kashmir; b) that the idea that an Indian nuclear arsenal would ingratiate the
country with a US supposedly 'intent' on encircling China was met with simple
incredulity in Washington; c) the idea that a joint 'coming out' of India and
Pakistan as nuclear powers would at least provide for strategic stability was
thoroughly discredited by the Kargil conflict."
Mr.
Hyman goes on to say correctly that; "with the failure of the initial
rationales the (Indian) government is increasingly leaning on the less concrete
goals of its nuclear decision. Primarily among these is the quest for
recognition as a member of the 'great power' club." Mr Hyman however, did
not spell out that the membership to that club (read a permanent seat at the UN
Security Council) is also doubtful without China's approval as that country has
a veto at the UN and no expansion of the Security Council can take place
without Bejing's approval. Also it is highly unlikely that over two dozen
Muslim states in Asia will agree to vote for Hindu-Fundamentalist India (the
assassins of the Babri mosque) to
permanently represent them at the UN Security Council.
No
wonder the morally repugnant Brahmin fundamentalist, Swastika-worshipping BJP
rulers in India are so blinded by their lust for power and confused by their
nuclear-laced ambition that they have forgotten mathematics and made a mockery
of the 2001 Indian Census to show progress where there is none and to have the
statistics of a great power in the World Bank/IMF/US State Department
computers. According to the official data available at the website of the
Census of India http://censusindia.net/results/statedata.html the census-takers have
'discovered' that for the first time since the 1940's the number of literates
have outpaced the decade's increase in population. The number of literates has
suddenly increased to five hundred and sixty six million literates in the
latest 2001 census out of a total population of one thousand and twenty seven
million (one billion twenty seven million) - an increase of over 200 million
literates in a decade. As if that 'discovery' of extra 200 million literates
was not enough to satisfy their ego the percentage to total population of
literates in the 2001 census has been shown as 65.38%
instead of 55.19% as it should be even with the fudged figures. Some
arithmetic! Some ambition! Some nuclear power! AND SOME FRAUD!
To
further elucidate the above point and focus on the ruling BJP junta's
proclivity for fraud it will be worth looking at the 1991 census figures where
ONLY 18.2% (yes 18.2%) of the 151 million households in India had the
facilities of 'safe drinking water' and 'toilets' with 80% (670 million - yes
over 670 million) of the population seeking relief every morning in the fields
- like animals - for the call of nature. For details of the 1991 census figures
for these items please see: http://www.censusindia.net/cendat/datatable28.html. It will also be
interesting to see how the amoral Pundit Murli Manohar Joshi, the federal Human
Resources Development minister of the ruling BJP government, (an heir apparent
to Prime minister Vajpayee and a 'Dr. Goebells' clone to boot) has fudged those
figures in the 2001 census. He is already talking about achieving a 75 percent
literacy rate in the next five years http://www.timesofindia.com/today/08indi13.htm ) - a huge increase of over
20% in five years. Something no country has been able to do in such a short
span. We are certain nothing will change on the ground but this
Swastika-worshipping Brahmin liar will succeed in juggling the figures! We are
also certain that some Sikh, somewhere, will take up the gauntlet and be on
minister Joshi's tail to expose him and educate the World Bank/IMF, Think Tanks
and various encyclopedias about the true state of the Indian Castocracy.
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