Sikh Neighborhood involved About French President Macron’s Attendance at India’s Republic Day Occasion

Professional-Sikh freedom group has shared a poignant letter written to French President Emmanuel Macron, the missive expressed the Sikh neighborhood’s disappointment it urged President Macron to handle essential points throughout his go to.

A couple of days earlier than India’s Republic Day on January 26, the pro-Sikh freedom group Dal Khalsa has shared a poignant letter written to French President Emmanuel Macron was the chief visitor at India’s seventy fifth Republic Day celebrations. The missive expressed the Sikh neighborhood’s disappointment it urged President Macron to handle essential points throughout his go to. The group’s attraction is a vital plea for worldwide intervention within the Sikh neighborhood’s ongoing battle for justice and recognition. WSN studies.

The cir­cum­stances and de­vel­op­ments within the final yr have seen Sikh bod­ies go­ing in­ter­na­tional of their ap­proach to advert­costume­ing burn­ing is­sues con­cern­ing Sikh iden­tity and Sikh rights in a con­certed at­tempt to re­remedy the po­lit­i­cal con­flict be­tween Sikhs and In­dia.

Dal Khal­sa’s let­ter to Pres­i­dent Macron, despatched by way of the French Am­bas­sador in In­dia, penned by the par­ty’s Sec­re­tary for Po­lit­i­cal Af­gala’s, Kan­conflict Pal Singh, excessive­lights the worldwide scrutiny of the In­dian gov­ern­males­t’s function in transna­tional re­pres­sion.

The or­ga­ni­za­tion voices the Sikh com­mu­ni­ty’s con­cerns, stat­ing, “Your ac­cep­tance to be the chief visitor at In­di­a’s Re­pub­lic Day cel­e­bra­tions has acutely dis­ap­pointed the Sikhs world­vast.”

 “Sikhs are fac­ing a stay menace to their ex­is­tence and iden­tity, not solely in Pun­jab and In­dia but additionally in different coun­tries. Now that you’ve de­cided and as per­haps there isn’t a look­ing again, we urge you to have a di­a­logue along with your In­dian coun­ter­half In­dian Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Modi dur­ing your go to to New Delhi on transna­tional tar­geted killings of Sikhs, im­ple­ment­ing equal pris­oner norms and legal guidelines within the coun­strive, restor­ing re­spect for hu­man rights and es­pe­cially em­pha­siz­ing the Sikh de­mand for amend­ing In­di­a’s con­sti­tu­tion to provide relaxation­much less peo­ples of var­i­ous na­tion­al­i­ties the precise to self-de­ter­mi­na­tion un­der UN covenants.”

Dal Khalsa has em­pha­sized the se­vere menace to Sikh ex­is­tence and iden­tity, not solely in Pun­jab and In­dia however glob­ally, cit­ing in­stances of ex­tra­ju­di­cial killings by In­dian se­cret ser­vice brokers. The let­ter re­it­er­ates the Sikh com­mu­ni­ty’s strug­gle in Pun­jab for Sikh sov­er­eignty.

Fur­ther­extra, Kan­conflict Pal Singh has excessive­lighted that whereas In­dia marks 26 Jan­u­ary with pomp and glory, In­di­a’s mi­nori­ties and na­tion­al­i­ties, in­clud­ing Sikhs, ob­serve it as ‘Black Re­pub­lic Day’ on account of In­di­a’s dis­crim­i­na­tory and fas­cist poli­cies.

Re­it­er­at­ing its re­remedy to position issues in correct per­spec­tive, Dal Khalsa has an­nounced a peace­ful protest march in Moga on Jan­u­ary 26, to re­name and re­it­er­ate the con­sti­tu­tional in­jus­tices and dis­crim­i­na­tion confronted by mi­nori­ties, in­clud­ing Sikhs.

Dal Khal­sa’s cor­re­spon­dence with Pres­i­dent Macron additionally touches upon re­cent in­ter­na­tional in­ci­dents, in­clud­ing the as­sas­si­na­tion of Cana­dian Sikh ac­tivist Onerous­eep Singh Ni­j­jar and the in­dict­ment of an In­dian na­tional within the US for plot­ting towards US cit­i­zen Gur­pat­need Singh Pannu. These occasions, ac­wire­ing to Dal Khalsa, have positioned In­dia un­der sus­pi­cion, with the group ex­press­ing fears and ap­pre­hen­sions re­gard­ing In­di­a’s re­sponse to these in­ci­dents.

Not cease­ping at simply the par­tic­i­pa­tion of the vis­it­ing dig­ni­tary on the 26 Jan­u­ary occasions, Dal Khalsa has ques­tioned the French gov­ern­males­t’s con­tin­u­ous sup­port for In­di­a’s bid to hitch the UN Se­cu­rity Coun­cil.

Communicate­ing to World Sikhs Information, with­out minc­ing phrases, Kan­conflict Pal Singh stated, “If with­out a seat on the excessive­est stage on the United Na­tions, In­dia is un­tame­in a position and un­ac­depend­in a position, ought to In­dia achieve a foothold on the Se­cu­rity Coun­cil, we shud­der to consider the con­se­quences  that will probably be­fall mi­nori­ties and na­tion­al­i­ties, en­dan­ger­ing peace in South Asia ex­press­ing con­cerns over po­ten­tial threats to mi­nor­ity rights and peace in South Asia.”

“The carte blanche en­dorse­ment of In­di­a’s at­tempt to be a mem­ber of the UN Se­cu­rity Coun­cil by the gov­ern­ment of France un­der­scores the necessity for wager­ter com­pre­hen­sion of the pos­si­ble de­struc­tion In­dia may cause to peo­ples’ rights.”

As French Sikh res­i­dents, in­clud­ing cit­i­zens, face se­ri­ous mis­han­dling of their iden­tity is­sues with var­i­ous gov­ern­ment de­half­ments in France, Kan­conflict Pal Singh additionally sought the vis­it­ing dig­ni­tary’s in­ter­ven­tion to re­spect Sikh iden­tity and make lo­cal munci­pal and state reg­u­la­tions ac­wire­ingly.

With this well timed let­ter, Dal Khalsa has as soon as once more fo­cused in­ter­na­tional at­ten­tion on the plight of the Sikh com­mu­nity and it could be in­ter­est­ing to see if France up­holds its com­mit­ment to equal­ity, lib­erty, and fra­ter­nity in advert­costume­ing the is­sues raised.