Dal Khalsa will march in honor of Operation Blue Star

In observance of the anniversary of Operation Blue Star, which claimed hundreds of Sikh lives during the first week of June 1984, the Dal Khalsa has declared that on June 5 in Amritsar, there would be a Holocaust Remembrance Parade.

Senior politician Kanwar Pal Singh declared at a news conference that forty years had gone since the Army stormed the Golden Temple and Akal Takht, demolishing the structure.

Declaring it an unforgivable crime by the central government of the time, he said the Sikhs suffered and felt cut off from society as a result of their prolonged detentions. The Dal Khalsa has decided to abstain from voting in the Lok Sabha elections under the current administration.

Making fun of democracy’s election farce, he said that the Punjab issue persisted 40 years later. The political leadership of the state and the center has changed. Our June 1984 wounds have not been healed by this,” he said.

The Punjabi government’s witch-hunting practices and the filing of fictitious charges were condemned by the Dal Khalsa. Concurrently, the Foreign Minister and leaders of the Dal Khalsa Association sent their sympathies on the untimely passing of Dr. Seyed Ebrahim Raisi, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He stated, “We, the Punjabi people, offer our sincere condolences to their family and the Iranian people during this difficult time.”