Play on Godse Vs. Poster of Bhindranwale = Rights of the Brahmins Vs. Rights of the Sikhs

The unnecessary chaos in Kashmir due to the protest of the Sikhs and the loss of life at Ranibagh due to police shoot out are simply avoidable. 

All this is only because of the saffron mentality of the bureaucrats.

One does not find anything wrong in the display of posters of Sant Jarnail Singh Bindharanwale, when one recalls how the government of Maharashtra had, long back, granted permission to stage the play, “Me Nathuram Godse Bolsthoy” that glorified and justified Godse and his assassination of Mahathma Gandhi. Even the self-styled “national newspaper” The Hindu editorially supported the play on Godse in the name of freedom of expression.

There is, therefore, no justification in the action of the government bureaucrats in removing the posters of Bhindranwale. The Sangh Parivar is simply surviving only on propaganda and they are adepts at showing anyone as villain and anyone as hero as they pleased. Unless and until the RAW and IB are extricated from the clutches of one single Varna people who use that position and power to enforce their own law based on Manu neethi and Arthasastra, there will be no equality and equity in public life in India. 

Godse was a real criminal who wanted Chaturvarna concept to rule the nation so that the apartheid perpetuated in Hindu religion continues forever and the three lower Varnas remain slaves to the Brahmins.

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Kushwant Singh's article on Operation Bluestar in the Indian Express in 1984

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The Indian Express had published the news item “Huge quantity of heroin found in Golden Temple” on 15.6.1984 in its first page of course, laying so much importance on the issue. The excerpts:“Intelligence sources said heroin and smack worth millions of dollars in international market and smuggled in from North – West Frontier Province in Pakistan was found in rooms occupied by supporters of militant Sikh leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale adjacent to Akal Takht.”

Thus the intelligence sources had been discharging their duty by spreading canards, consciously.

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Now the facts. 

Excerpts from the article by Mr. Khushwant Singh in the Indian Express, Sunday, October 21,1984:

“First reports, all issued by government agencies, admitted the death s of 13 women and some children. The same agencies denied that any woman or children had died. When faced with the contradiction, a third version was floated, viz., the women and children hand been killed by a grenade thrown by Bhindranwale‟s men”

“It was put out (by government agencies) that a large number of women, including prostitutes and European hippies, were found in the Temple complex. Some women were pregnant – others presumably were able to avoid pregnancy because of the large numbers of condoms found in the debris” 

“This was followed by yet another canard that quantities of opium, heroin and hashish were unearthed by the troops. The story made the front page of all newspapers. Two days later an amended statement was issued to the effect that the narcotics were discovered in a house outside the Temple complex. This was published on inside pages where it passed unnoticed by the majority of readers who only read headlines”

“Attempts to further blacken the reputation of Bhindranwale were even clumsier. It was first suggested that he had committed suicide. Then M.K.Dhar of the Hindustan Times had it from “most reliable sources” (almost certainly No.1. Safdarjang Road) that he had been slain by his own comrades. This made banner headlines on the front page of his paper. When the post-mortem report revealed that Bhindranwale‟s body was riddled with bullets from head to foot, no more was heard of his taking his own life, or being murdered by his men”

“Since no self-respecting Sikhs could be found to give the government a clean chit, frightened rusties were hauled before TV cameras and made to repeat statements prepared by officials to the effect that the army action had brought peace to the Punjab. This was obvious when the hapless Kripal Singh, Jathedar of the Akal Takht was shown nervously reading from a slip of paper placed in his hand”The sustained propaganda of falsehood yielded dividends. It came to be generally accepted that those who accepted the government point of view were patriots: those who did not were communally biased,supporters of Bhindranwale, Khalistanis and traitors”

“Three months after “Operation Bluestar”, no one really knew exactly how many people had lost their lives in the fighting in the Golden Temple and 40 other gurdwaras invaded by the army, or had been killed on the roads and fields trying to get to Amritsar. By their own admission the government spokesmen conceded that the figures cited in the White Paper (on Punjab released by the government) were grossly underestimated. The White Paper gave the number of soldiers and officers killed as 92: Rajiv Gandhi later stated that upwards of 700 army personnel had been slain. There can be little doubt that if a zero were added to the official figure of 516 of civilian terrorist casualties, we would be closer to the actual number of lives lost- it was certainly in the vicinity of 5000 dead”Before the action started many homes adjoining the Golden Temple were ordered to be evacuated and occupied by soldiers. When the owners were allowed to return, their TV sets, radios, fridges, clocks- almost everything movable- had disappeared.”

“In the temple complex itself there are over a dozen shrines, each with its golak (metal pitcher) – for offerings made in cash. It would be safe to estimate that at any time these golaks would contain over Rs. One lakh in cash. Besides these, there were the offices of the SGPC, the Akali Dal and the Istri Akali Dal, each with liquid cash for day-to-day requirements. The SGPC disburses over a lakh of rupees a day towards its guru ka langar and for sundry services rendered by hundreds of sewadars and hired labourers. After the army action, not a counterfeit coin was found in the golaks or in the offices of these organizations”

“Indeed, it is pretty certain that in order to cover up the traces of such plunder, the offices of SGPC were deliberately set on fire to destroy to destroy their account books. It is also more than likely that the archives housing handwritten copies of the Granth Sahib and the hukumnamas were likewise set alight under the impression that they were account books too. Contrary to the assertion of the White Paper that these buildings caught fire during the exchange of fire, we have the statement of the activist, Devinder Singh Duggal,who was in his office during the fighting, that the archives were set on fire after the action was over”