SAD alleges Govt killing Punjab history

Alleging the Congress Government of “killing” the Punjab History, the SAD on issued a final ultimatum to Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh to immediately issue orders to stop “the conspiracy to eliminate the proud and unparalleled history and heritage of the Khalsa Panth or face a worldwide popular resistance movement by the Sikh qaum”.

The SAD-BJP coalition’s high-level delegation will meet the Punjab Governor on Friday to seek his personal intervention in the matter and ensure that the teaching of history to school students of Classes XII and XII continued in the same exhaustive pattern as before.

SAD, which held its core committee meeting on Thursday, would decide on its future course of action in its meeting of the Political Affairs Committee, the Working Committee, the General Council, all the Political Advisors, all the Zila and Circle Jathedars of the Party in Amritsar on May 11.

The decision was taken during the three-hour long core group meeting.

Expressing grave concern over the attempts by the Punjab government to play havoc with Sikh history, the core committee maintained that the matter was “far too vital” for the future of the Sikh qaum to be treated merely as an issue of political difference of perception.

“It seems that the Chief Minister does not realize the enormity of the damage being done to Sikh history by his government’s decision to delete it from the prestigious Board class XII in PSEB. Chief Minister needs to know how deeply the Sikh qaum is perturbed over this anti-Sikh conspiracy to deprive the coming generations of the legacy and heritage of the Khalsa Panth handed down to the community by our great Gurus,” said SAD president Sukhbir BAdal while addressing the media.

Maintaining that SAD wanted a solution, not confrontation, Sukhbir made it clear that in case “the conspiracy and ugly plan to eradicate Sikh history from the minds of our children now studying in schools is not ended, SAD will not flinch from making any sacrifice that the Sikh history and heritage demands from us. The issue will then be decided in the court of the Khalsa Panth”.

The SAD core group passed a resolution saying that a havoc being played with Sikh history in Punjab now is a part of a “conspiracy” to keep the coming generations ignorant about their proud history, heritage and legacy and thereby destroy their religious and cultural roots.

“The dangerous conspiracy is aimed at striking at the very fountainheads of Sikh religion, that is, their spiritual heritage as recorded in history,” the resolution added.