OPEN LETTER TO CHIEF MINISTER BADAL:

OPEN LETTER TO CHIEF MINISTER BADAL:

Fasts Against Corruption Show Disgust of Indians

June 27 , 2011

OPEN LETTER TO CHIEF MINISTER BADAL

Fasts Against Corruption Show Disgust of Indians

Sikhs Are Slaves Under Indian Rule

Freedom Lies in the Heart of the Sikh Nation

Dear Chief Minister Badal:

WAHEGURU JI KA KHALSA, WAHEGURU JI KI FATEH!

The corruption in India is starting to boil over.  Activist Anna Hazare, yoga guru Baba Ramdev, and their followers were forcibly removed from the Gandhi cremation site after “hundreds of people” gathered in Delhi to hear Hazare condemn the police crackdown against Baba Ramdev, who continues his fast in his home town of Haridwar, according to the BBC.  Mr. Hazare also held a fast against corruption in April.  Baba Ramdev is demanding the return of bribe money held overseas.

Honest people have joined hands to speak out about corruption.  The people of India are fed up with the corruption, bribery, and the accumulation of dirty money by the ruling class.  Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul were recently seen in Switzerland taking care of their secret Swiss bank account where they keep their black money.

What a shame for the Gandhi family and the Congress Party, who claim to be the representatives of the people.  While 80 to 90 percent of the population lives on less than a dollar a day, the Gandhis have billions of dollars stashed away in accounts outside India.  They should bring that money back to India to invest in development, education, health, and other needs of the Indian people.  That would be the right and wise thing to do.

It is a shame that the leadership of the Akali Dal, you and the Badal family, fall into the same category.  You have also accumulated large amounts of black money through corruption.  It is also stashed away in other countries, like the money of the Gandhis.  Your son Sukhbir recently opened a massive hotel of over 1,000 rooms in Gurgaon (Haryana), a suburb of Delhi, worth thousands of crores of rupees.  He didn't even open the hotel in Punjab and create jobs in Punjab.  Where did the money come from?  The obvious answer is corruption.

It was well known that your late wife, Surinder Kaur, could tell just how much money was in a bag just by lifting it. This is how deeply the corruption is rooted.  That money was collected selling jobs to the people of Punjab.  Even driver jobs were sold for black money.  The whole government machinery was so corrupt they had a name for bribery.  It was called “fee for service.”  When the Chief Minister is corrupt, the government officials below tend to become corrupt also.

Mr. Badal, you are in your 80s.  You have serious health problems.  We wish you a long life, but like all human beings, you will eventually die.  All that money you have accumulated did not help your wife escape death.

It is time for you, Mr. Badal, to do your introspection.  You should do your job honestly and earn your living by an honest day's work.  As leader of the Akali Dal, you must be aware of the Sikh code of conduct: Nam japna, kirat karni, wand shakna. (Pray in the morning; earn a living honestly with your own hands; share with the needy.)  You have betrayed this code.  You have accumulated very large amounts of money by corruption and bribes.  That money will not go with you.  It will remain here when you go.

There is nothing wrong with making large sums of money by honest means.  You have not done so by honest means.  My advice to you and your son Sukhbir is to listen, learn, and help the people of Punjab to come out of poverty by investing in industry, education, health, and their other needs so that people can prosper.

Mr. Badal, you are aware that Sikhs are very hard-working people who feed India.  According to the Tribune (Chandigarh), Sikhs provide about 50 percent of India's national wheat pool and 40 percent of the national rice pool, even though Punjab is only 1.3 percent of the area of India and Sikhs comprise only two percent of the population.  Yet Sikh farmers are heavily debt-ridden and are committing suicide at an alarming rate.  The people are under the control of the dishonest leaders because the leaders keep them poor by providing a subsistence level of food at a price of Rs3 per kilo.  They do not even get the cost of production for their produce.  Please use the resources of Punjab to rectify these conditions so that Punjab can be a prosperous state again, instead of storing huge amounts of money away out of the country for your personal use. Punjab is the land of the Gurus and the people who live there should not have to be hungry and deprived  of the basic necessities of life.  Sikh farmers must be free to sell their crops at fair prices on the world market.

Mr. Badal, I hope you will not take this as criticism, but as a wake-up call.  These are the sad facts about the situation in Punjab.

As a Sikh, you always recite “Raj Kare Ga Khalsa.”  Without political power, the Sikh Nation cannot progress and the Sikh religion cannot thrive.  As long as we remain under the slavery of India, it will continue its efforts to eradicate the Sikh religion.  In Punjab, there is no freedom.  As the late General Narinder Singh said, “Punjab is a police state.”  We need to free Khalistan, as declared by the Sikh Nation on October 7, 1987.

You have tested your power with the Indian government.  They refused to change the punishment of Professor Bhullar, who was sentenced to death, despite the combined efforts of your government, the opposition, the SGPC, and the international Sikh community.  The whole Sikh Nation cannot change the sentence of Professor Bhullar to life imprisonment.  Dara Singh and others, the murderers of two Christian missionaries from Australia, were not hanged.  When 20,000 Sikhs were murdered at the behest of the Indian government, no one was punished.  Yet Professor Bhullar was sentenced to death for killing one person who had a hand in the murders of thousands of Sikhs in Punjab.  It wasn't even a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court.  Yet the whole Sikh Nation acting in unison can't get this reduced.  This shows how India subjugates the Sikh Nation and people.  If you can't even get one man's sentence reduced, then what kind of power do you have?  If you want real power, you should support freedom for the Sikh Nation in a sovereign, independent Khalistan.

India is not one nation, but many nations thrown together under one rule for administrative convenience.   Such countries are doomed to fall apart, as Austria-Hungary, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia show.  America's Central Intelligence Agency reported that by 2015, it expects that India will disintegrate and become many countries.  The only solution for the Sikh Nation is an independent Khalistan.  We have seen the treatment of the Sikhs by the Indian regime for over 60 years.  At this point, it isn't going to change.  We have been discriminated against, tortured, murdered, and generally mistreated to wipe out the Sikh religion.  They even try to deny its existence by proclaiming Sikhism a branch of Hinduism.  The Hindu government of India wants minorities either subservient to Hinduism or completely wiped out.  In spite of the fact that the religions believe completely opposite things, Hindus desire to engulf Sikhism just as they did with Jainism and Buddhism in India.  As a Sikh leader, it is incumbent upon you to help free the people you lead from this oppression.  Always remember our heritage.  We must end the corruption and rededicate ourselves to the cause of freedom.  Without a free Khalistan, the Sikh Nation does not have any future.  Let us join hands to free Khalistan.  Khalistan Zindabad!

Panth Da Sewadar,

Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh

President

Council of Khalistan

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Issued by 

Parmjit Singh Sekhon (Dakha)

Advisor – Council of Khalistan

Member - Punjabi Sahit Sabha

President – Dal Khalsa Alliance

Member – Bhai Ghanaiya Society

President – International Sikh Sabhiachar Society

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