[Reader-list] Sikhs Angry Over RSS Film

[arshad amanullah]

                                                                Sikhs Angry
Over RSS Film
New Delhi:Shiromani Akali Dal chief of Delhi  Paramjit Singh Sarna in
letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh  and Home Minister Shiv Raj Patil
has demanded a ban on the film on former RSS chief late MS Golwalkar in
which the great role and contribution of Sikhs has been ignored.He declared
that ithis fillm will not be allowed to be shown.He said in his letters that
in this film  Sikhs have been described as a part of Hinduism,thereby
denying the existene of Sikhs.It is also said in this that during 1947
communal riots ,RSS men protected Sikhs.Expresssing his anger,he said in his
letters that Master Tara Singh's role has also been ignored who had even
torn away Muslim League's flag and because of whom large parts of Punjab and
Bengal were retained by India and that it were the Sikh soldiers who had
prevented Pakistan from grabbing kashmir.He further said that in this film
the history of struggle from Bhagat Singh to Udham Singh  has been blacked
out.He quoted Mahatma Gandhi who had said that  the first war of
independence was won by Sikhs and added that a representative body of Akalis
will soon meet ythe Jathedar of Akal Takht and demand that the relationship
between RSS and Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal group) may be clearly specified.

(Source:The Milli Gazette,1-15 October,2006)


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