“The refusal by the management committee of the Panchkula Gurdwara Sahib is fully justified and reflects the collective will of the Sikh community” – SPOKESMAN, DAL KHALSA

Washington D.C. Wednesday, January 23, 2013: The management of a Gurdwara Sahib, located in Panchkula, in the Indian non-riparian state of Haryana, has point blank refused to allow the family of the late Indian Army Lt. Gen. (Retd) Ranjit Singh Dyal, (born 15 November 1928: died 29 January 2012) to hold a prayer meeting this month to mark the first anniversary of that mercenary’s death, according to Indian media reports. The (www.deccanchronicle.com/130121/news-current-affairs/article/citing-operation-blue-star-attack- golden-temple-gurdwara-refuses) above mentioned General Ranjit Singh Dyal, now dead, a turbaned Sikh – to his eternal shame – was widely known to have taken charge with glee of the horrible June 1984 India Army attack on the Darbar Sahib, Amritsar, (also called the Golden Temple in the Western world) with the aim of murdering the charismatic Sikh preacher, Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale (born 12 February 1947: martyred the Indian Army on June 6, 1984) who had earned the respect of the Sikh community and had become very popular among the Sikhs masses with his preaching and simple religious messages from the Darbar Sahib, Amritsar. The June 1984 Indian Army attack was ordered by the late Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the then Prime minister of India who was the mother-in-law of India’s current ‘king-maker’ the Italian ‘import’ Mrs. Sonia Gandhi. Prime minister Indira Gandhi’s ‘Machiavellion’ order to the Indian Army to attack the Darbar Sahib, Amritsar resulted not only in the murder of Sant Jarnail Singh Bjindrawale but also the destruction of the Akal Takht Sahib, inside the Durbar Sahib complex, in the holy city of Amritsar. The uncalled for Indian Army attack on the Darbar Sahib complex and destruction of the Akal Takht Sahib angered and offended every practicing Sikh for ever!

According to the Wikipedia the late Lt. Gen. Ranjit Singh Dyal had the overall charge of leading the Indian Army assault on the Darbar Sahib complex in June 1984 along with mercenary Indian Army Generals Kuldip Singh Brar and Krishnaswamy Sundarji. At that time, (June 1984) General Ranjit Singh Dyal was chief of staff of the Western Army Command and it was he who drew up the plans (Code name: Operation Blue Star) to murder Sant Jarnail Singh Bjindrawale, and evict other Sikh patriots from the Darbar Sahib complex (known in the West as the Golden Temple) in Amritsar.

The late Lt. General Ranjit Singh Dyal, if he was a practicing Sikh, could have honorably resigned from the Indian Army and refused to take part in any army attack on the Darbar Sahib – the holiest site in Sikhism. He could have also refused to be associated with the state-sponsored mass murder by the Indian Army of thousands of innocent Sikh pilgrims (men, women and children) visiting the Darbar Sahib, at that point in time, in early June 1984. The above mentioned Division-strong Indian army operation (code-named: Operation ‘Blue Star”) resulted not only in the murder of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale but the mass murder of thousands of innocent Sikh pilgrims (men, women and children) during that early June 1984 Indian Army attack on the Durbar Sahib, located in the Sikh holy city of Amritsar, in Indian Occupied Punjab. That horrible June 1984 event marked the start of the decades-long state-sponsored Sikh genocide in Indian occupied Punjab, New Delhi and other urban areas of India, during which thousands upon thousands of other innocent Sikhs (men women and children) were murdered by Hindu mobs led by police mercenaries dressed in uniforms of the Indian state. The fact that thousands of murdered folk were all Sikhs and were his compatriots and co- religionists did not bother the late General Ranjit Singh Dyal. The horrible decade long genocide of Sikhs, that followed the attack on the Darbar Sahib did not bother the General either. The tragic Sikh genocide did not elicit even a squeek of protest or regret or empathy from General Ranjit Singh Dyal even after his retirement from the Indian Army when he was given the ‘khushi jobs of governorship of Pondicherry (1988 to 1990) and the governorship of the Andaman islands (from 1990 to 1992) as a reward for betraying the Sikh community! Some Sikh!

It is obvious that the late Lt. Gen. Ranjit Singh Dyal’s was a greedy mercenary as his dead consience did not bother him even during the dark days of November 1984, when over ten thousand Sikhs were murdered by state supervised Hindu mobs. It did not even bother him when hundreds of Sikh army officers – his brother officers – over 180 of them, traveling in uniform to Delhi were dragged out of Indian trains, were beaten to death and their bodies torched with Kerosene by Hindu mobs on railway stations, like Tughlaqabad, mostly around Delhi in November 1984. Even after retirement Lt. General Ranjit Singh Dyal did not repent and did not show any regret and did not seek forgiveness in the Darbar Sahib for his evil deeds.

A Chandigarh datelined report about the above mentioned incident in the Panchkula Haryana Gurdwara Sb. published in the English language Indian newspaper, Deccan Chronicle yesterday, (January 22, 2013) headlined, “Golden Temple, gurdwara refuses to hold prayers for Lt Gen R S Dayal,” quotes the spokesman of the Punjab-based Sikh patriotic organization, Dal Khalsa, Sardar Kanwarpal Singh Bittu, as saying that his organization supports the (http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130121/news-current-affairs/article/citing-operation-blue-star-attack- golden-temple-gurdwara-refuses) decision of the Punchkula Gurdwara management committee to refuse permission to hold a prayer meeting to remember the late Lt. Gen. Ranjit Singh Dyal whose hands are colored with the blood of thousands of innocent Sikhs. “The refusal is fully justified and reflects the collective will of the Sikh community”, he is reported to have said.

The Dal Khalsa spokesman is right. Indeed. his forthright comment supporting the refusal of the management of the Haryana Gurdwara to hold a first anniversary prayer meeting for that dead mercenary, (Lt. Gen. Ranjit Singh Dyal), reflects the collective will of the twenty eight million Sikh nation, three million Sikhs living free in the diaspora and 25 million captive in the Indian ‘map’, since August 1947 when the exhausted British Colonials quit South Asian subcontinent in haste after the end of World War II. It is hoped that the thousands of Sikh officers and men serving in the Indian Army will take a lesson from the shame of the late Lt. General Ranjit Singh Dyal and take a cue from the moral courage displayed by over two dozen very senior retired Sikh Army officers (Lt. Generals, Major Generals, Brigadiers, and Colonels et al) who had the guts to speak their mind at the press conference, held on December 17, 2012, at the Pankaj Hotel in Chandigarh. During that press conference the retired Sikh senior Army officers have demanded answers from the Indian government, and from the headquartes of the three armed services, about the unsolved mystery – an accounting of the murders of one hundred and eighty (yes 180) uniformed Sikh officers and men who were dragged out of trains by Hindu mobs, led by junior Congress partry leaders, and murdered on the platforms of different railway stations near Delhi, in November 1984. Readers are urged to educate themselves about this new development by clicking at the following link to see and hear the hidtoric December 17, 2012 Chandigarh press conference. Readers are urged to circulate the following video to as many friends as possible:- (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Furk_QTczaA) Unlike the above ‘ghairatmand’ senior Sikh retired officers, the shameless Lt. Gen. Ranjit Singh Dyal did not want any problems with his pension and other privileges and died on 29 January 2012, in Indian ‘slave-harness’. Let his relatives seek help from the Indian government!

Washington D.C. Wednesday January 16, 2013: Indian Army Chief General Bikram Singh, (who wears a Sikh Turban) has a la Mr. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) founding-father of Bharat- India) preferred to take a ‘vow of silence’, (acting like a ‘dove’) about addressing the issues raised lat month by over two dozen very senior retired Sikh army officers, in a Dec. 17, 2012, press conference held in the Pankaj Hotel Chandigarh (video at:- > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Furk_QTczaA <) about the fate of the last remains of hundreds of uniformed Sikh officers and men who were murdered in cold blood in Indian trains and railway stations, in the November 1984 genocide, by Hindu mobs, rampaging under the orders of the then Prime minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi. The bloody state-sponsored exercise eventually resulted in the mass murder of over ten thousand innocent Sikh men, women and children in New Delhi and other urban areas of India, to the utter disgust of the world’s 28 million strong Sikh community – 25 million captive in the Indian map and three million free and prosperous in the diaspora. Recently General Bikram Singh has instead, endangered the well-being of the Sikh Homeland of Indian occupied Punjab (specially the vulnerable holy city of Amritsar which is located right on the Pakistan border) by jumping into the fray by issuing threats to a nuclear-armed, law-less, leader-less, ‘confused’ Pakistan. He also went along with the accusation that Pakistani soldiers were responsible for the deaths of two Indian soldiers who were killed in a cross border raid by Pakistani soldiers in disputed Kashmir. He also endorsed the story floating around that one of the two deadsoldiers was beheaded by intruding Pakistani soldiers who carried away the head as a trophy. General Bikram Singh also chose to act as a ‘hawk’ during a New Delhi press conference, last Monday, on the eve of the 65th Army Day, by jumping into the Kashmir dispute. General Bikram Singh, is reported to have said that he expected his commanders to be aggressive and offensive and ‘did not want them to be timid’. The General was reacting to media reports about the January 8 death of a Indian soldier (Lance Naik Hemraj), near the ceasefire line in disputed Kashmir, which Indian media was claiming (or is it RAW) was a beheading, allegedly by intruding Pakistan Army troops, in ‘a pre-planned and premeditaed (http://www.thehindu.com/ news/national/we-will-retaliate-if-provoked-further-says-army-chief/article4306810.ece) action. The General
asserted that, India ‘reserves the right to retaliate at a time and place of its choice’.
According to another version of the same New Delhi press conference the Calcutta-based (http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130115/jsp/frontpage/story_16442737.jsp#.UPSfCvJ4gY4) English language newspaper, ‘The Telegraph’, carried the story of the New Delhi 65th Army Day function with a very belligerent headline which reads as follows, “Chief swears vengeance at place and time of India’s choosing - Army spits fire, wonders if Pak wants to reactivate LoC.” The New Delhi-datelined Telegraph newspaper report quoted General Bikram Singh as having said that, “India will avenge the pre-planned and premeditated mutilation and killing of its soldiers by Pakistan at a place and time of its choosing. The Indian Army will respond in the areas where the Pakistanis raided — at the “tactical level” — as the chief put it. “The beheading and killing of the Indian soldiers on January 8 “was a tactical operation that was planned much in advance and it has strategic nuances”, Gen. Bikram Singh was reported to have said. In military jargon, “tactical level” can mean either a localized armed conflict or an armed conflict in which heavy weaponry is not massively deployed. But Singh said the military “was still analyzing if the Pakistan Army wants to reactivate the LoC”. The army chief’s statements and background conversations with other officers paint a still-evolving picture with suggestions of some definite clues. One, the army appears to have concluded that the beheading was carried out by the Special Services Group of the Pakistan Army with the knowledge of the general headquarters in Rawalpindi. Two, the army wants to retaliate without escalating tension. This might mean more firepower for the forces and flexibility for commanders on the ground. The upshot could be more instances of firing across the border. Three, the army is yet to take a final view on the reason for the beheading. It is trying to figure out if Pakistan wants to reactivate the LoC. A few more instances of escalation would confirm such a suspicion, which will have implications for not just India but also for America’s war on terror as it will give Islamabad an excuse to shift troops from its border near Afghanistan to Kashmir. For the past two days, the Pakistan Taliban have been speaking of granting immunity to Pakistani soldiers. In swearing vengeance, Gen. Bikram Singh acknowledged that, ‘the institution of the Indian Army had been scarred by the January 8 raid and despite words of restraint from the political establishment, the military was honor-bound to redeem prestige’.

Looking at the above irresponsible public comments of Indian Army Chief, General Bikram Singh’s, quoted above, it seems the man has allowed himself to be intimidated by the ridiculous public comments delivered by the fiery spokesperson (a future Information minister in any future BJP cabinet) of the powerful Neo-fascist BJP opposition party, Ms. Sushma Swaraj. The lady has a habit of strutting around on the Indian political stage flaunting her morally repugnant Neo-Nazi credentials. According to a Khairair datelined report in the prestigious Chennai-based English language newspaper THE HINDU, published last Monday (January 15), under the headline, “Get 10 heads if they don’t return it, says Sushma” , in which she is reported by the newspaper as having said that, (http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/get-10-heads-if-they-dont-return- it-says-sushma/article4307814.ece) “If Pakistan does not return the severed head of the martyred soldier Hemraj, India should get at least 10 heads from the other side. The question is: Will we sit without any reaction and engage in a dialogue [with Pakistan]? This should not happen. At least the government should react in some way. That is why we have said the government should take some tough measures,” she said, while talking to reporters here after visiting Hemraj’s family along with party leaders Nitin Gadkari and Rajnath Singh. Hemraj, along with Lance Naik Sudhakar Singh, was killed on January 8 by the Pakistan Army regulars after infiltrating into the Indian territory in the Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir. “Today, the nation is demanding: Don’t prove a weak government. They [the Pakistan Army] came on the LoC, killed our soldier and took away his head with them and there should be no reaction ... this should not be tolerated at any cost.”Ms. Sushma Swaraj said: “The government should apologize for the apathy. They should apologise to the family of the soldier and the country. But they should at the same time take revenge for the incident”.

Ms. Sushma Swaraj was also reported by the HINDU newspaper to have further added that, “Hemraj’s wife Dharamvati was “disturbed about two things — one is about the honor of her husband. She said I couldn’t even see his face. As you know that his body arrived without the head, she is shocked at this, but nobody from the government came for his final rites. The other is about the honor and dignity. Both her feelings are legitimate.” Ms. Sushma said: “When the entire country is feeling outraged, the government didn’t even inform [us] when and how the last rites will be performed.” There should have been sincere efforts by the government to be present at Hemraj’s last rites. As per rules, the Defence Minister should have himself come here. If he couldn’t come, the State Minister should have definitely come. The Home Minister should have come, somebody from the PMO or some State Minister should have come. There is Army in Mathura ... somebody from the Central Command in Delhi should have come. But the kind of apathy that has been shown, their grievance is genuine,” said Ms. Sushma.” The government didn’t even inform [us] when and how the last rites will be performed.
Instead of endangering the Indian occupied Sikh Homeland in general, and the holy city of Amritsar in particular, with his jingoism, the Indian Army chief, General Bikram Singh, a Sikh ought to calm down and provide the right answers to the dozens of very senior, very angry, very frustrated, retired Sikh Army officers who raised important questions (> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Furk_QTczaA <) about the conduct of the Indian state, and its ruling elite, during and after the November 1984 pogrom nay genocide during their historic press conference held in a Chandigarh Hotel Pankaj on December, 17, 2012.

Proper identification will allow them to be given proper Sikh funerals, arranged by their next of kin, their relatives and/or Sikh communities

For once, treat these soldiers with the same respect that they gave India.

Washington D.C. Wednesday January 9, 2013: Dear Prime minister Manmohan Singh: The great 16th American President, (1861-1865) Abraham Lincoln, (b.1809 – d.1865) in a famous speech, delivered in Springfield Illinois, on January 27, 1838, made a profound statement, which is valid even today, in which he said that, “There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law”.

As you are surely aware Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, the assassination of Prime minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi, on October 31, 1984, by her own bodyguards, who happened to be Sikhs, like you, resulted in her son, Rajiv Gandhi, inheriting the Indian Prime minister’s ‘chair’, within minutes of her death on October 31, 1984, as a result of a hush-hush back office deal by some intrigant officials – he was appointed not elected. Soon thereafter – minutes later – newly appointed Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, gave ‘a wink and a nod’ to some venal junior Congress party leaders, present near him, urging them to ‘teach the Sikh bastards a lesson’. Obviously the newly appointed young ‘Prime minister of India’, Rajiv Gandhi believed that his grievance – loss of his evil-minded mother – was a fit object of redress by armed mobs made up of goons of the Hindu majority, who were duly mustered, armed, and led by the Police, to hunt down any Sikh in a four days long blood bath (a pogrom nay genocide) in which bloody spree over ten thousand innocent men, women and children, belonging to the Sikh minority, were murdered/raped and burnt alive in Delhi, and other urban centers of India, while the
leadership of the Indian Army, which disciplined organization could have brought order, in a matter of minutes, were told by ‘higher authority’ (the then Home and Defence ministers) to confine all soldiers to their barracks in the cantonments including the Delhi cantonment, until further orders. The ‘further orders’ were only given four days later to restore order, late on November 4, 1984, and the Army restored order in Delhi within an hour.

A little over three weeks ago, on Monday, December 17, 2012, dozens of very senior retired officers of the Indian Army, all of them Sikh, (many of them of the rank of Lt. General, Brigadier and Colonel; Lt. Gen. Sardar Kawal Singh Gill; Brig. Sardar Kuldip Singh Kahlon; Brig. Sardar Harbans Singh and many other retired and respected senior Sikh officers of the Indian Army were also present and who also spoke) got together and attended a press conference on Monday, December 17, 2012, held in the Hotel Pankaj, Chandigarh. There, the above mentioned retired Sikh senior Indian Army officers spoke their mind with passion, in the presence of the Indian media, and talked about their anguish about the murder of 28 uniformed Sikhs officers and men, who were returning to duty, when they were waylaid by armed Hindu mobs and murdered on the platform of the Tughlaqabad railway station, 12 miles South of New Delhi, at the start of the police-supervised November 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom cum genocide which later spread to all parts of urban India. Mr. Prime minister, please look/see the 30 minutes long inspirational video of the above-mentioned Dec. 17, 2012, press conference, attended by many senior retired Sikh Army officers, and held in the Pankaj Hotel in Chandigarh, Punjab, by clicking at:- (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Furk_QTczaA)

Less than two weeks ago this column, KHALISTAN CALLING, on Wednesday December 26, 2012, after receiving numerous requests from its readers, made a respectful public appeal to India’s Army Chief, General Bikram Singh, who is also a Sikh like you Mr. Prime minister (http://www.khalistan-affairs.com/wp/?p=1037) for copies of the Army Courts of Inquiries, which were surely held, about the circumstance of the missing 28 army officers and men, (who were murdered on the platform of the Tughlaqabad Railway Station, 12 miles South of New Delhi on November 1, and November 2, 1984) so that their names, and other details, about them would allow their relatives, friends and next of kin, to give them proper Sikh funerals, after a delay of 28 years, so that the dead could rest in peace. The Indian Army Chief, General Bikram Singh has NOT reacted to this column’s above mentioned respectful request to him, dated December 26, 2012. Instead, the Indian Army Chief’s reaction took the shape of a New Delhi-datelined, Press Trust of India (PTI) report, published in the Statesman, a Calcutta-based English language newspaper, on January 2, 2013, headlined, “Army verifying 1984 death of Sikh officers.” The response was heartless and arrogant coated with dezinformatsiya and disinformation. The Statesman newspaper report also ridiculed the dozens of very senior retired Sikh officers of the Indian Army, who had publicly expressed their anguish and pain, about the murder of twenty eight uniformed Sikhs, during the December 17, 2012, press conference held in the Hotel Pankaj in Chandigarh, Punjab. The Statesman report said that, (and the Statesman report is being quoted verbatim here) that, “the Army is checking the veracity of allegations leveled by a few retired Sikh officers that six officers (?) belonging to their community were killed during the 1984 riots near Tughlakabad and Nangloi areas here. The Adjutant General’s branch of the Indian Army is looking into the allegations made by the retired officers, Army sources said here. The retired Sikh officers had leveled the allegations reportedly at a Press conference in Chandigarh on 17 December after which the matter was brought to the notice of the Defence Ministry. A Sikh separatist outfit based in Canada appears to be seeking to use these allegations to incite passions as it has put (http://www.thestatesman.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=437611:army-verifying- 1984-death-of-sikh-officers&catid=36:india&from_page=search) the the video of the December 17, 2912, Chandigarh press conference on its website, the sources said. PTI” End quote.

Mr. Prime minister, the December 17, 2012, Chandigarh press conference, (mentioned above) attended by dozens of retired Sikh senior Army officers, has suggested that twenty eight Sikh officers and other ranks of the Indian Army were murdered at the Tughlaqabad and Nangloi railway stations on November 1, 1984. Our reliable sources in India however, have reported that 160 (yes one hundred and sixty) Sikh civil and military passengers who were traveling to and from Delhi on 1st and 2nd November 1984, were murdered in cold blood at various railway stations, in the vicinity of New Delhi, by armed Hindu mobs. The Railway Stations which were seriously affected by the murders were Tughlaqabad, Nangloi and Daya Basti within the jurisdiction of New Delhi Railway Police Station, besides Palam, Bijwasan, Cantonment and Yamuna Bridge within the jurisdiction of Delhi Main Police Station. Mr. Prime minister according to our sources all the above incidents are on record and have been clearly brought out in D.O. letter No. 30/SIB(I) HQ/84 dated 7.12.1984 from Mr. S. P. Banerjee, Chief Security Officer, Northern Railway, New Delhi, which he addressed to Mr. S. S. Jog, the then Commissioner of Police.

There are also many first information reports (no less than seven) filed at Toghlaqabad Railway Station by Railway employees. For example FIR No. 355/84 dated November 1, 1984 accounts for the murder of 25 Sikhs. It was lodged at 12.30 PM by one Rameshwar Dayal, booking clerk at Tughlaqabad Railway station. This FIR describes how a mob of 300-350 after surrounding the Bombay Junta train, standing on that station, dragged out 25/26 Sikhs soldiers from the train, murdered them with Iron rods and lathis and then burned the bodies with Kerosene.

The other FIR No. 357/84, dated 2-11-84, was lodged at 10 a.m. by the Guard of 25 Dn. Bombay- Amritsar Deluxe train. This train for want of signal clearance was forced to stop at Tughlakabad Railway Station. The guard reported that about 2000 men surrounded the train, removed its hosepipes and made it immobile. The men armed with lathis, sticks and iron rods pulled out the Sikh passengers, thrashed them mercilessly and set them on fire. When the police came the mob ran away. The train left Tughlaqabad Railway station in a hurry around 1.27 p.m. and reached Delhi at 2.05 p.m. There after 8 dead bodies were recovered at Delhi from the compartments of this train.

It is hoped Mr. Prime minister, that armed with all the above information you, as a Sikh, and a Prime minister of India, will take prompt action and make public the names and other information about the murdered Sikhs (we have accounted for 33 Sikhs here who were murdered at the Tughlaqabad railway station in this write up) at various other railway stations, in the vicinity of New Delhi, in November 1984, so that their next of kin, their relatives and friends can give the dead Sikhs their last rites as a Sikh. As a Sikh Mr. Prime minister, you as a Sikh owe that much to the murdered Sikhs.

In his opening remarks at the above mentioned National Development Council meeting, in Delhi, convened to finalize the 12th Five Year Plan, Indian Prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh was reported to have pontificated that, ’no meaningful development could take place without the active participation of half the population [women and girls], and this would not be possible if their security was not ensured’. He went on to say that, ‘Gender inequality is another important aspect which deserves special attention. Women and girls represent half the population, and our society has not been fair to this half. Their socio-economic status is improving, but gaps persist. The emergence of women in public spaces, an essential part of social emancipation, was accompanied by growing threats to their safety’. Some gaps persist’? THIS IS JUST TALK!
Last month’s vicious New Delhi gang-rape has brought the problem of rape (and other sex crimes) in India back into focus where the ratio of women to men has been constantly falling in most states (according to last four Indian census figures) because the girl/child has become unwanted because of social mores and India’s customs of female inferiority. As a result in many cases female children in India are being secretly murdered on birth – infanticide. For example Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir, witnessed a decline in the ‘female child sex ratio’ from 964 female children per 1,000 male children in 2001 to 859 female children per 1,000 male children in 2011 as per the Indian census 2011 – a drop of 105 female children in a decade. The 2011 Indian census figures for Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir also show that in addition to the falling child sex ratio, the overall female to male ratio also saw a steep decline from 900 females per 1,000 males in 2001 to 883 females per 1,000 males in 2011 – a drop of 17 females. The falling male/female ratio (and child sex ratio) is no better in the states of Haryana, Indian occupied Punjab and many other Indian states.

The Prime minister’s words of concern, during the above mentioned National Development Council meeting were about last months’ (December 16, 2012) horrible gang rape in New Delhi, which horrific rape has brought protesting angry crowds out into the streets of New Delhi and other cities in urban India. The recent protest/sympathy crowds were exceptionally large in New Delhi, (a well patrolled urban area, built a century ago on Sikh Gurdwara lands stolen by the Colonial British and now considered the world’s ‘rape capital’) – the Prime minister did not speak a word of sympathy for the tens of thousands of rapes – YES tens of thousands of rapes – which take place daily (yes daily) outside most Indian villages where the women from poorer (or lower Dalit caste) sections of rural society, (who number nearly two hundred million in India – over 17% of the population) in the absence of public latrines near their ‘jhuggies’ or temporary shelters, use the fields, or bushes, or government land running adjacent to the over 39, 000 miles long British-built railway network, at night. They go there to answer the daily ‘call of nature’, where these women are often way-laid in the dark by upper caste rapists some of them uniformed policemen. No one in India has given thought to the fact that half of the over two billion dollars price (the original contract had a eight hundred million dollars price tag) India’s jingoistic, corrupt rulers are paying to Russia for a thirty four years old refurbished, ‘ailing’, obsolete aircraft-carrier (the 45, 390 ton Admiral Gorshkov – laid down ages ago in 1978) could provide a latrine for every poor urban or rural Indian a la China. In some countries the land along railway lines (unlike India which uses the land as one big public latrine) is utilized to carry pipes of clean drinking water for rural areas and other pipelines are used to carry gas/oil for urban areas. India some corrupt demoNcracy!

Sikh readers of Khalistan Calling must be aware that India’s turbaned ‘Sikh’ Prime minister, Manmohan Singh, (or his Sikh wife) have been very miserly with their ‘concern’ (mentioned in paragraph one above) for the poor Sikh women who were gang raped (and their children/husbands burnt in front of their very eyes) by armed Hindu mobs, in Delhi, during the November 1984 genocide (that state-supervised pogrom ordered by none other then the then Indian Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, the late husband of the Italian import, Congress party president Mrs. Sonia Maino Gandhi. The late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is also the father of the dim- witted ‘pretender to the Indian Prime Minister’s chair, Rahul Gandhi who can’t even produce a school leaving certificate. Twenty eight years have passed since the dark days of the November 1984 genocide. The claim of highest concern of Prime minister Manmohan Singh government therefore, is not believable – it is just a convenient lie to calm the angry protesters! If the Indian Prime minister Manmohan Singh really means ‘business’, and is concerned, to end the gang-rapes why he or his wife have not shown concern for the hundreds of poor Sikh widows of the 1984 state-sponsored Delhi pogrom who are still living in and around Delhi in squalor. The least he could have done in the past eight years was to send his wife to visit the ‘Sikh widows of Delhi’ a la the first lady of the United States, Mrs. Obama, who found time for a prompt sympathy visit to the Sikh survivors of the Wisconsin Sikh gurdwara massacre by a racist last year to share their grief.

Every one in India knows that 28 years ago, on 31 October 1984, the just sworn in Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi, (husband of Mrs. Sonia Gandhi) launched an anti- Sikh pogrom, with ‘a wink and a nod’ and a vicious lament for mass murder of Sikhs, a la King Henry II of England’s famous quip, in 1170 AD, for Archbishop Becket’s head. This resulted in the killing of over 10, 000 innocent Sikh men, women and children, all over the country, including the capital city of Delhi, by armed Hindu mobs organized and directed by uniformed local Police. Innocent Sikh men, women and children were murdered, burnt and raped just because they looked like Sikhs. Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi received divine punishment, for his criminal act, when he was assassinated on May 21, 1991, but not one of the other guilty one’s, the Congress party junior leaders – who led the mobs during the November 1984 murder spree in Delhi – has been found guilty despite the passage of over twenty eight years.

To get back to the December 17, 2012 press conference; The retired senior officers of the Indian Army who attended the Chandigarh press conference, mentioned above, expressed their anger and anguish over the cover up of the murder of twenty eight uniformed fellow officers and other ranks, in one particular horrific incident of mass murder (nay genocide) organized by the Rajiv Gandhi-led ruling Congress party workers, (like Kamal Nath, Sajjan Kumar, Jagdish Tytler,H.K. L.Bhagat, Amitabh Bachchan & others) at the Tughlaqabad railway station, just outside Delhi, when a train coming from Indian occupied Punjab, carrying these twenty eight ‘uniformed’ officers and soldiers returning to their duty, was waylaid, on Nov. 1, 1984. Readers please look/see the 30 minutes long video of the above-mentioned Dec. 17, 2012, press conference held in the Pankaj Hotel Chandigarh by clicking at:- (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Furk_QTczaA)

One of the retired senior Army officer, attending the above mentioned December 17 press conference in Chandigarh, expressed his anger against the then senior army officers of the Indian Army stationed in the Delhi cantonment who like the civilian leadership did nothing – his angry comments can be clearly heard in the video. He said (correctly) that the Station Commander of the New Delhi Cantonment, did not have to seek permission from anybody (civilian authority), or wait for any ‘official nod’, to rescue uniformed soldiers and their families under mob attack. He is correct! He perhaps does not know that, after the 1857 mutiny the ruling British Colonials, rewrote many regulations as they were scared that another native mutiny could take place in their Indian colony which could again endanger the lives of British Civil and military officials and their families, who ALL lived in the ‘Civil lines’ of Cantonments adjacent to civilian habitation, which were not fenced off – lest the ‘natives’ conclude that the British rulers were afraid. Therefore a ‘Station Commander’ of any Army Cantonment, in India, under Army regulations drafted at that time, did not have to wait for or seek permission of any civilian authority to send armed soldiers on a ‘rescue patrol’ to save fellow soldiers whose lives are in mortal danger.

Anyone who has served in the Indian or Pakistan Army or the pre-partition British Indian Army, knows that even if a single bullet or one bayonet gets lost or a truck gets damaged in an Army unit. a Court of Inquiry is held right away which becomes a part of the Battalion’s Archives. Surely Courts of Inquiry were ordered by the Commanding officers of the respective units of the twenty eight officers, JCO’s and men when it was realized that they had disappeared (when they did not show up for duty) in November 1984. These missing 28 are obviously more important than a single bullet or a single bayonet! To satisfy the demand of the senior retired Army officers – common courtesy – who took part in the press conference on December 17, in the Pankaj hotel in Chandigarh, the Army authorities ought to, nay MUST make public the original Courts of Inquiry about the twenty eight who went missing twenty years ago in November 1984.

One can assume that the above simple request for the copies of the Courts of Inquiries, held in November 1984, in different Indian Army units about the missing twenty eight uniformed Sikhs, who were murdered on November 1, 1984 on the platform of Tughlakabad Railway Station by a mob, would be honored by a sympathetic SIKH Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army, General Bikram Singh, who was appointed by the Sikh Prime minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh as Indian Army Chief of Staff on May 31, 2012 when he took over the troubled command of the Indian Army from retiring General V. K. Singh who was described as the ‘the worse Army Chief so far’ by a former Security Advisor of the government.

Musings on the failing Indian dynastic regime, which has been masquerading as a democracy, for some time but now has a ‘pretender’ to the Indian Prime minister’s throne, (the not-so-bright) 42 yrs. old bachelor, Rahul ‘Gandhi’ (the son of the late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi & his Italian wife, Sonia Antonia Edvige Albina Maino alias) Mrs Sonia Gandhi) who is being ridiculed as a ‘budhu’ (a dim-wit) on the Indian street, even before his take over

Washington D.C. Wednesday December 19, 2012: According to a new report by Global Financial Integrity, a Washington-based research and advocacy organization, titled, “Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2001-2010,” India lost $123 billion in black money (yes U.S. $. 123 Billion) during that decade.

The Nov. 2010 Global Financial Integrity report, titled “The Drivers and Dynamics of Illicit Financial Flows from India: 1948-2008,” found that the Indian economy had lost $462 billion to illicit financial outflows from 1948 through 2008. (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-lost-123-billion-in-black-money-in-a-decade/articleshow/17660983.cms)

“While claims of progress have been made in recent years, India continues to lose a large amount of wealth in illicit financial outflows,” said GFI director Raymond Baker. “Much focus has been paid in the media on recovering the Indian black money that has already been lost,” he said, suggesting policymakers should instead, make curtailing the ongoing outflow of money priority number one. “$123 billion is a massive amount of money for the Indian economy to lose,” said Dev Kar, GFI lead economist and co-author of the report with GFI economist Sarah Freitas. “It has very real consequences for Indian citizens. This is more than $100 billion dollars which could have been used to invest in education, healthcare, and upgrade the nation’s infrastructure,” he said. Authored by Kar, the report measured India\\\’s underground economy as 50 percent of GDP, with cumulative illicit outflows accounting for an increasing share of the total underground economy

Global Financial Integrity has advocated that world leaders increase the transparency in the international financial system as a means to curtail the illicit flow of money highlighted by the research of Kar and Freitas’. No wonder the majority of Indians, over seven hundred and fifty million, are unwashed and have no excess to clean drinking water, schools or health clinics or shoes etc. When the British Colonials quit the South Asian subcontinent, in August 1947 they had left behind a network of railway lines – the British never visualized that a majority of Indians (over seven hundred and fifty million in 2012) would be using the land along these railway lines as public latrines, spreading filth and disease. Today, in 2012, more than sixty three years after independence from the British, millions of Indians still use the land along the railway lines as latrines every morning – woman at night. The land running parallel along to these railway lines could have been used instead to carry piped drinking water or gas pipelines or electricity lines to serve rural India. God help the Indian people!

Looking at the Indian political scene the sight is no better. Many shrewd and experienced observers of the Indian political scene, are expressing their doubts whether the pretender to the Indian Prime minister’s ‘throne’, the 42 years old bachelor son, (of the late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and his Italian widow, Sonia Antonia Edvige Albina Maino, alias Mrs. Sonia ‘Gandhi’) who goes by the name of Rahul ‘Gandhi’ (alias Raul Vinci) is capable of reviving the fortunes of the Congress party which is hamstrung by corruption scandals, infighting and declining electoral prospects. On the Indian street the dim-witted ‘pretender’ to the Indian Prime minister’s ‘throne’, Rahul ‘Gandhi (?) has become an object of ridicule and has been nick-named ‘The Budhoo’ – The dim-wit.

None-the-less, Indian political parties across the spectrum are gearing up to face the next Indian general election. And, for the umpteenth time the Congress party has announced that Mr. Rahul ‘Gandhi’ will play a more important role in the Congress party. These announcements assert that Rahul Gandhi will lead the Congress party in the coming 2014 election, while his mother and Congress party president, Sonia Gandhi (?) will be the patron and supreme leader of the party. However, doubts continue to linger because Rahul ‘Gandhi’ joined active politics nearly nine years ago and has to-date not been able to prove his leadership credentials in anything.

Most political observers are of the opinion that the ‘tired’ Congress party will not be able to perk up in several parts of India as it will be very difficult for anyone to revive the Congress party in the two big states – Bihar and Utter Pradesh – going by the recent Assembly elections. There, the hard campaigning by Mrs. Sonia ‘Gandhi’ and her son Rahul ‘Gandhi’ did not do anything for the Congress party. In Delhi, Rajasthan, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Haryana anti- incumbency feeling are staring the Congress party in its face. States like Tamil Nadu, Odisha and West Bengal have gone out of the Congress’s party’s ‘pocket’. While in Maharashtra, Jammu and Kashmir, the Congress party is currently merely a minor coalition partner.

Some observers believe that in such a situation the Congress party will need a surgical operation or a miracle to return to power a third time. After the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh polls, elections to eleven State Assemblies are scheduled for next year followed by the Lok Sabha polls in 2014. These elections will be acid tests for the Congress leadership. Rahul Gandhi’s experiments with the Youth Congress and the NSUI do not inspire much hope as dim-witted Rahul Gandhi has inherited a party hamstrung by corruption scandals and sharply declining electoral prospects. It is also doubtful that with his low intellect/education Rahul Gandhi can involve the Congress party old timers and the new crop of Congressmen and find a role for each of them without conflicts. It is also doubtful that Rahul Gandhi will be able to revive the front organizations like the Sewa Dal, Mahila Congress and the NSUI in the next 18 months before facing the electorate in the 2014 polls. It is also doubtful that the likes of half-literate leadership like slow-moving home-educated Rahul Gandhi (he never finished High school or graduated from any university) will have the will, ability or intellect to control or check the huge black market economy exposed by the Global Financial Integrity, the Washington-based Research and Advocacy organization, mentioned in paragraph one above. Only God can help India!

As far as Indian occupied Punjab, the Sikh Homeland is concerned, it can only safeguard a rosy future for its hard working people by looking Westwards towards the seven Stans of Central Asia for trade and commerce, and distancing itself from the caste-ridden Indian demoNcracy with the help of the three million strong muscular Sikh diaspora. If fifteen million Jews of the world can create the state of Israel, then the twenty eight million muscular Sikhs can surely establish a democratic buffer state of Khalistan stretching from the Pakistan border to the Jumna river on the South Asian subcontinent.

ਪਿਛਲੇ 10 ਸਾਲਾਂ ਵਿਚ ਟਾਟਾ ਗਰੁੱਪ ਨੇ ਭਾਰਤ ਨਾਲੋਂ ਬਾਹਰਲੇ ਮੁਲਕਾਂ ’ਚ ਨਿਵੇਸ਼ ਕਰਨ ਨੂੰ ਤਰਜੀਹ ਦਿੱਤੀ – ਰਤਨ ਟਾਟਾ

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