What about Indias unofficial Black List of Sikhs?
Chandigarh, April 13:
We know that there is an Official Black List of Sikhs. The government of India has names of some Sikhs whom they suspect to have indulged in anti-national activities at some point of time.
There has been a demand to abolish the list and let Indians, read Sikhs, come to their motherland to be able to pay obeisance at Golden Temple at Amritsar or visit their relatives which include parents, brothers, sisters, spouses and children.
Parents and other relatives have died in India but black listed Sikhs have not been allowed to come to India to attend their cremations or Bhog Ceremonies. Black listed Sikhs have died abroad but were never given a chance to visit their near and dear ones.
The Sikhs have even requested to review the list so that only those remain in the list, who had actually remained a threat to the integrity of the country and spare those who had genuine or say economic reasons, like people who sought political asylum, just to get an entry or stay in a particular country.
However, there has been an unofficial black list of Sikhs too, who have been harassed without any reason or rhyme, just because there actually is a black list of Sikhs.
YES PUNJAB has come across a case which is very interesting but saddening and demands attention. This is a representative case of unofficial black list of Sikhs.
The black listed Sikh in question is 80 years old, (will be 81 on June 9, 2011), has 5 children and 12 grandchildren, is a professional engineer, was a Hindi Announcer at Akashvani, Bhopal, had a valid Indian Passport, claims to have no relations with any Sikh organization, is not on the list of 169 black listed Sikhs, has two daughters married to Hindus, has a clean shaven son who happens to be a Mayor in California and last but not the least was honored by none other than the President of India.
The man is a patient who had undergone heart and back surgeries, is a diabetic, is bed-ridden and mostly moves in a Disability Chair.
But mind it
..mind it, he is a threat to India and is a black listed Sikh, not included in the official black list of Sikhs, but harassed almost every time like a black listed Sikh.
Not going into the emotional stuff that one can write on the subject and the case in particular, we handover the mike to Gyani Karnail Singh, to let you know what he was, what he is, what he has been going through and what he thinks.
While you finish reading his tale, YES PUNJAB, would expect you to react not only in the comment box below but also at your own level, logically, legally and democratically, regardless of who you are and where you are.
And this is not an appeal to Sikhs, this is an appeal to everybody who claims to be human.
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