Sikh radical organisation, Dal Khalsa, on Sunday asked all the gurdwara committees across Punjab to pass resolution against Operation Bluestar, wherein army attacked the Sikhs’ holiest shrine Darbar Sahib and 37 other gurdwaras, besides holding prayer meets on June 6.
Dal Khalsa maintained that while the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) observe the day at Akal Takht, Sikhs highest temporal seat, in which representative organisations of Sikhs across the spectrum participate, there was a need to hold such samagam at local gurdwaras too.
It is for the first time in the recallable past that Dal Khalsa has decided to reach out to all Gurdwara managements urging them to organise ardas divas in the memory of those who died during the Army assault on June 6.
To ensure that what’s said would be done, letters are being sent to gurdwara managements in which contents of the proposed draft resolution has been mentioned for adoption.
“We are approaching maximum possible gurdwara managements to adopt the resolution on June 6. We propose to cover the entire state within the next three years,” said Dal Khalsa leader Kanwarpal Singh.
He said that the organization wanted to engage the people at grass root level. “The entire responsibility to express Sikh pain should not be left to handful of representative groups and individuals. We all, as a community, should express our joint pain at all level,” he said, adding that the Sikh masses need a platform to express their pain and emotions.
Secretary Ranbir Singh said that June 1984 episode has permanently been etched on the collective consciousness of the Sikhs.
He announced that Dal Khalsa and its allied groups will take out a ‘Genocide Remembrance March’ in Amritsar onJune 5 starting from Gurdwara Ranjit Avenue to Akal Takht Sahib.