1st Photo:- With Late Sh. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Former Prime Minister of India, Late Dr. Baldev Parkash, the then State President, BJP, Punjab, during by-election campaign of my father in 1985.
2nd Photo :- Addressing Annual Session 1979-80 of Chandigarh & Punjab Lecturers Association ------on Dais, Sh. Prem Kumar Dhumal, Former Chief Minister Himachal Pradesh & the then Office Bearer of the Association, Late Sh. Ramesh Chander, Former MLA.
From the Window of History---
Third Installment of The Views expressed by my father Late Sh. Manmohan Kalia Former Minister Punjab in a Seminar "The Punjab Problems and Its Solution" in the year 1984:-
Before coming to the recent background of the Punjab Problems, I would highlight another aspect So far as the Sikh Community as a whole is concerned there is a difference between the Sikh Sentiments and the Sikh Politics. By Sikh Politics, I mean Akali Politics. The Sikh sentiments are distinct from Akali Politics, but in order to achieve their goal, the Akalis have been exploiting the Sikh sentiments also. The Sikh sentiments, for example, are the prohibition of Police, Entry to any Gurudwara and the Holy Guru Granth Sahib is the living body of the Guru. Whereas the B.J.P. respects the Sikh sentiments it differs on many points with Akali Politics and Akali demands. We seriously believe that many of such demands in Akali Politics are neither in the interests of Punjab and Punjabis, nor even in the interests of Sikhs living in Punjab.
At the time of the formation of Punjabi speaking State, I remember very well that Sant Fateh Singh, the then President of Akali Dal, before undertaking a fast un-to-death had categorically said that justice should be done to Punjabi language and Punjabi Culture and a Punjabi speaking State created, and he would not mind if the Chief Minister of that Punjabi Speaking State i.e. New Punjab-- newly carved Punjab- were a Hindu. Can any Akali Leader now own the statement of the late Sant Fateh Singh with reference to what is incorporated in the Anandpur Sahib Resolution and the tone of speeches of the Apex Akali Leaders while expressing their sentiments upon Akali demands? Certainly not.
Before expressing myself on the solution, I would quote some instances which I talked about and brought to the notice of S. Parkash Singh Badal, the Chief Minister during 1977-1980 when the Resolution by the Akali Conference at Ludhiana was passed asking for more autonomy for Punjab. I had told him that sometimes different channels are adopted to secure power but different policies are adopted to exercise it. In the name of Khalsa, Maharaja Ranjit Singh secured Punjab but in the name of secularism he ruled it. after independence, the D.M.K. struggle against the Aryan culture, declaring that the Tamils were different from the Aryans who destroyed their culture and rule. They struggled against Brahmanvad and even raised separatist slogans, but once they captured power in 1967 the D.M.K. ruled strictly according to the Indian Constitution , taking into confidence all sections of Society, the sections against whom they were struggling before coming to power. Sheikh Abdullah, when he was in the wilderness, had said once out of hate, that if he died he should not be buried in India, but his dead body should be thrown into the Arabian Sea where the fish touching the sacred soils of Saudi Arabia should come and eat his dead body. But when he returned to power in 1975, he ruled Kashmir, inducting Hindu Ministers and giving a secular look to his administration. Our Akali brethren put up a different stance. All the three times i.e. in 1967,1969, and 1977 they secured power to administer the state in the secular way but became narrow and narrow with the passage of time. To sum up, they achieved power or tried to achieve it (but not now which is apparent from their present agitation ) with the help of other communities but afterwards forgot their sentiments--forgetting that in a democracy, in a Hindu Majority area, a Hindu will be opposed by a Hindu and in a Sikh Majority area a Sikh by a Sikh. The rest of the communities are a counter-balance, their confidence is necessary.------Continued on next Sunday.........
2nd Photo :- Addressing Annual Session 1979-80 of Chandigarh & Punjab Lecturers Association ------on Dais, Sh. Prem Kumar Dhumal, Former Chief Minister Himachal Pradesh & the then Office Bearer of the Association, Late Sh. Ramesh Chander, Former MLA.
From the Window of History---
Third Installment of The Views expressed by my father Late Sh. Manmohan Kalia Former Minister Punjab in a Seminar "The Punjab Problems and Its Solution" in the year 1984:-
Before coming to the recent background of the Punjab Problems, I would highlight another aspect So far as the Sikh Community as a whole is concerned there is a difference between the Sikh Sentiments and the Sikh Politics. By Sikh Politics, I mean Akali Politics. The Sikh sentiments are distinct from Akali Politics, but in order to achieve their goal, the Akalis have been exploiting the Sikh sentiments also. The Sikh sentiments, for example, are the prohibition of Police, Entry to any Gurudwara and the Holy Guru Granth Sahib is the living body of the Guru. Whereas the B.J.P. respects the Sikh sentiments it differs on many points with Akali Politics and Akali demands. We seriously believe that many of such demands in Akali Politics are neither in the interests of Punjab and Punjabis, nor even in the interests of Sikhs living in Punjab.
At the time of the formation of Punjabi speaking State, I remember very well that Sant Fateh Singh, the then President of Akali Dal, before undertaking a fast un-to-death had categorically said that justice should be done to Punjabi language and Punjabi Culture and a Punjabi speaking State created, and he would not mind if the Chief Minister of that Punjabi Speaking State i.e. New Punjab-- newly carved Punjab- were a Hindu. Can any Akali Leader now own the statement of the late Sant Fateh Singh with reference to what is incorporated in the Anandpur Sahib Resolution and the tone of speeches of the Apex Akali Leaders while expressing their sentiments upon Akali demands? Certainly not.
Before expressing myself on the solution, I would quote some instances which I talked about and brought to the notice of S. Parkash Singh Badal, the Chief Minister during 1977-1980 when the Resolution by the Akali Conference at Ludhiana was passed asking for more autonomy for Punjab. I had told him that sometimes different channels are adopted to secure power but different policies are adopted to exercise it. In the name of Khalsa, Maharaja Ranjit Singh secured Punjab but in the name of secularism he ruled it. after independence, the D.M.K. struggle against the Aryan culture, declaring that the Tamils were different from the Aryans who destroyed their culture and rule. They struggled against Brahmanvad and even raised separatist slogans, but once they captured power in 1967 the D.M.K. ruled strictly according to the Indian Constitution , taking into confidence all sections of Society, the sections against whom they were struggling before coming to power. Sheikh Abdullah, when he was in the wilderness, had said once out of hate, that if he died he should not be buried in India, but his dead body should be thrown into the Arabian Sea where the fish touching the sacred soils of Saudi Arabia should come and eat his dead body. But when he returned to power in 1975, he ruled Kashmir, inducting Hindu Ministers and giving a secular look to his administration. Our Akali brethren put up a different stance. All the three times i.e. in 1967,1969, and 1977 they secured power to administer the state in the secular way but became narrow and narrow with the passage of time. To sum up, they achieved power or tried to achieve it (but not now which is apparent from their present agitation ) with the help of other communities but afterwards forgot their sentiments--forgetting that in a democracy, in a Hindu Majority area, a Hindu will be opposed by a Hindu and in a Sikh Majority area a Sikh by a Sikh. The rest of the communities are a counter-balance, their confidence is necessary.------Continued on next Sunday.........
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Manoranjan Kalia
Date 17 th May 2020 .
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