Sikhs feel alienated in their own country: Akal Takht chief

Giani Gurbachan Singh says the community was facing a big question as how to save its identity.

Claming that law and administrative set up of India were making Sikhs feel alienated in their own country,Akal Takht chief Giani Gurbachan Singh on Thursday said the community was facing a big question as how to save its identity.

Addressing a gathering during the 29th anniversary of Operation Bluestar,Singh also underlined that there was a dire need to present a right picture of the Sikh community to the world. He asked SGPC to come up with booklets in different languages after consulting Sikh scholars,intellectuals,Panthic reporters and other concerned to ensure that the sacrifices made by our great martyrs do not go waste.

The booklet,which will chronicle sacrifices by Sikhs,will be the right tribute to Amar Shaheed Sant Baba Jarnail Singh Ji Khalsa Bhindrawale,Amar Shaheed Bhai Amrik Singh President All Indian Sikhs Students Federation and number of Sikh martyrs,said Singh.

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Despite thousands of sacrifices made by us,people of other religion and ideologies living outside Punjab see us from a wrong perspective. There is a need to inform crores of countrymen living in south and east that Sikhs made maximum sacrifices in the freedom struggle of the country.

But Congress and other communal minded people made us a scapegoat for their political interests and fulfilled their political ambitions. The people need to be informed that in independent India,what and how rulers committed atrocities on their brothers, Singh said.

He added: On one hand,preparations are on to hang Devinderpal Singh Bhullar against whom there was no proof,and on the other,Congress leaders like Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler were being acquitted from courts despite hundreds of witness accounts against them.

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