[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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