Re: Not Hindu ? You are not an Indian :RSS Chief
These kinds of issues are resolved when the kaum is united and there is some Icon to guide the sikhs and put the words across. Do you think that sikhs have ever been united in India even after independence.?
There were sikhs in the constitutional committee and not a single voice was raised against this kind of constitutional wrong , If I am allowed to say, was committed. We don't get any thing free. Some price has to be paid and voices are to be mobilized. In the past no voice has been raised. We are bogged down by our Panthic issues and related problem like Taliban/Darshan Singh etc. and prior to this we were in Blue Star and 1984 riots.
Where is the sikh leadership.? We have none and that we have, has many vested interests. We are talking of the time when the things are favorable for the sikhs i.e. the PM is a sikh and he should do some thing about it.
The regional leadership of Punjab is with Badal who has no interest in these matters. Sikhs need a dedicated leader.One leader would suffice.Do we have effective sikh MP? No., We have Navjot singh sidhu who can be seen on every TV channels. He has no time for some serious jobs. We have one more MP in BJP who is visible on TV and media but he is also not interested. I cannot name any third personality who could think for the sikhs and their grass root problems. In nutshell we have no leadership at all.
Unless there is unity amongst the sikhs and we have a strong pro-sikh leadership these things would just get dragged on and on.
We have also no organisational set up in so far as SGPC is concerned. It is the only hope of sikhs. SGPC has to be re-vitalised but it all requires a strong will to do something for the panth. SGPC is lost in internal bickering.Recently there was a talk that SGPC would be run on a corporate model. Let us see how it works. I have my fingers crossed.
All said and done we have to rely on SGPC and make it more transparent and responsible as it enjoys the utilization of the huge corpus of funds. It is sitting on the cash that can be utilised for many useful purposes. One has already been cited above in the post.It is , I doubt, not able to deploy the cash for generating surplus on idle cash.Idle cash has a cost as well.The financial management also needs toning up. I have put in many things here to emphasize that without SGPCs active and dedicated role nothing is possible. Long term gains are received ,always , with short term costs. I further doubt if we have well educated persons in SGPC who can interact with International agencies to put the word across to the international bodies. Let us take some lessons from the kasmiris who are heading the separatist movements. They have leaders who can speak and can make them listened to as well.From time to time they invite the international media to visit this side of Kashmir and the rest of the job is done by the media.
The second and most important is the representation of the sikhs on international forums. Religion and Politics have to go side by side.If Politics/politicians neglects the religion, the religion cannot flourish. There are some sikh Industrialists but one cannot expect much from them except some contribution to Gurudwaras. I [or you] , as an individual, have limited means both time wise and finance wise.We are,right now, pretty unorganised sort of a kaum or a clan. Kindly do not mind my words
