Punjab police have launched a massive crackdown on Sikh activists ahead of Pathic Ekatarta (gathering) at Sri Amritsar today (17th of March).
Punjab police has put Panth Sewak personality Bhai Diljit Singh under house arrest. A team of six police officials visited Bhai Diljit Singh's house today and informed him that the state government has decided to put him under house arrest.
“The new extremism definition about to be unveiled today in Parliament, on the Sikh New Year, will formalise the engagement ban that leading Sikh organisations that are critical of the Indian government have already experienced”, the Sikh Federation UK said in a written release.
The World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO) is deeply disappointed by the decision of the Court of Appeal of Quebec largely upholding Bill 21, Quebec's controversial secularism law. The WSO maintains that Bill 21 is a direct attack on religious freedom and will continue to fight this unjust law.
British Columbia Gurdwaras Council (BCGC) has written a letter to the Canadian Foreign Minister (copy available with Sikh Siyasat News) to raise concerns regarding paramilitary troop mobilization by India at the East-Punjab-Haryana state boundaries and the alleged repression of farmer activists.
A Ghaziabad court today acquitted Sikh Political Prisoner Prof. Devinderpal Singh Bhullar in a 1994 case. Prof. DPS Bhullar who is on parole attended the hearing in person at the Ghaziabad district court today along with his counsel Advocate Jaspal Singh Manjhpur. The court had reserved the case for verdict today.
A death underlines the small farmers’ struggle for fair income in a so-called Punjab of agricultural prosperity. Shubhkaran Singh, 22, leaves behind a family that had to sell off an acre of its 3.5-acre land to run the household and marry off its eldest daughter. He’s gone, while the loan waiver he fought for hasn’t come.
The World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO) condemns the mistreatment and unjust detention of Sikh activists in Dibrugarh Jail, Assam.
Farmer leader, Baldev Singh Sirsa, confirmed today that a 21-year old activist was murdered by police bullets at Khanauri today.
On 5 February 1762, the pages of Sikh history unfurled a somber chapter known as Vadda Ghallughara, The Great Sikh Genocide, unfolding at Kup Rahera near Malerkotla.
An annual Jorr Mela takes place at Mastuana Sahib from 30 January to 1 February every year in the memory of Sant Attar Singh Mastuana.
The World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO), Ontario Gurdwaras Committee (OGC), and British Columbia Gurdwaras Council (BCGC) have jointly applied for standing in the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions, led by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue.
Sikh Political Prisoner Prof. Davinderpal Singh Bhullar has been behind the bars for about 28 years now. Recently a "Sentence Review Board" of Aam Aadmi Party led Delhi government by majority decision disapproved his case for permanent release despite various administrative reports recommending his release.
Arvind Kejirwal led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Delhi government's Sentence Review Board (SRB) has rejected the case of premature release of Sikh political prisoner Prof. Devinderpal Singh Bhullar.
In a press release by the Sikh Federation UK, it is said that the organization’s Principal Adviser Dabinderjit Singh has criticized the risk of the extreme Hindutva ideology that is allegedly being exported by the current Indian government across the globe.
Taking a significant step, the Dal Khalsa has shot off a missive to French President who is slated to be the chief guest of India’s 75th Republic Day celebrations on January 26, claiming that at this stage, when the Indian government’s role into transnational repression is under world scrutiny “your acceptance to be the chief guest has acutely disappointed the Sikhs worldwide,".
After US President, Joe Biden turned down an invitation to Republic Day celebrations in India on 26 January following accusations of transnational repression by the Indian state it was reported that the French President, Emmanuel Macron had accepted Narendra Modi’s invitation to be the chief guest of honour.
Sikh Sangat of Mastuana Sahib area and Sikh Jatha Malwa have launched a movement to ensure compliance of Sikh tradition of Jor Melas and Shaheedi Sabhas.
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In a recent statement the American Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee has criticized the Indian Government and the Hindu American Foundation for their alleged propaganda campaign targeting the American Sikh community.
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