Chandigarh, July 22, 2020 (Yes Punjab News)
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today condemned chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh and State police chief Dinkar Gupta for booking Sikh youth for heinous crimes on frivolous charges and asked them not to indulge in these human rights violations.
In a statement here, former minister Bikram Singh Majithia said there were widespread reports that the Congress government was targeting Sikh youth, many of whom were minor, simply for seeing some pages on the social media. He said draconian charges were being slapped on them and they were being dubbed as anti-nationalists.
Mr Bikram Majithia said in a recent case of his constituency a sixteen year old boy – Jaspreet Singh was arrested and kept in Patiala jail for fourteen days on charges of being linked with subversive activities. He said Sikh youth, who were not even old enough to drive a car, were being booked for terrorist acts.
“Such barbaric behavior by the State will scar the psyche of impressionable minds and is dangerous for maintenance of peace and communal harmony in the State”. He said the Congress government should be very circumvent before taking any action against any youth and should not charge youth with having committed subversive activities for simple misdemeanors.
The SAD leader said the real problem was with the mindset of the people at the top, particularly State police chief Dinkar Gupta who had been handpicked by chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh.
He said Mr Dinkar Gupta had revealed his mindset when he had given a statement while referring to the abode of the first Guru at Kartarpur Sahib by saying “Kartarpur offers a potential that you send somebody in the morning as an ordinary chap and by evening he comes back as trained terrorist actually”. He said it was due to this mindset that Sikh youth were being targeted in the garb of Referendum 2020.
Mr Majithia said Punjabis were a patriotic community and there was no support whatsoever for Referendum 2020. He said Punjabis had earlier also rejected the divisive agenda and were proud Indians. “We have laid down our lives to safeguard the nation and will do so again.
The Congress government should keep this in mind and not try to create any mischief to take the State back to a dark era which saw an attack on Sri Harmandir Sahib, the destruction of Sri Akal Takht Sahib and even planned genocide against the Sikh community in Delhi in 1984”. He also disclosed how the Gandhi family and the Congress party had earlier also painted the Sikhs as anti-nationals and that this would not be tolerated at any cost.
The SAD leader also announced that the party would fight all cases in which Sikh youth are framed in subversive activities on merit. “We will not allow human rights violations against our youth and will fight all such cases at appropriate forums”, he added.
YesPunjab now has two separate Facebook Pages for English & Punjabi content – Please Like & Share both Pages
English FB Page – https://www.facebook.com/yespunjab/
Punjabi FB Page – https://www.facebook.com/yespunjabpunjabi/
