Op/Ed: Four Member Panel for Sikh Political Prisoners So Far The Biggest Challenge For The Sangarsh Committee?

LUDHIANA, Punjab (June 3, 2015)—Bapu Surat Singh Khalsa’s fast unto death for seeking release of political Sikh prisoners has concluded 138 days. Punjab Government has tried to tarnish Bapu Ji’s struggle for the release of political Sikh prisoners who have fulfilled their mandatory terms of life imprisonment. Bapu Surat Singh has been arrested twice already – he was first arrested in February by the Punjab Government under charges of sections 107/151 of Code of Criminal Procedures (Cr.P.C). Again, he was picked up and detained recently on June 2.
It is important to mention that the Police brutally tortured Bapu Surat Singh Khalsa as they force feed him in hospital under leadership of ADCP Mukhwinder ‘Singh’ Bhullar. Punjab Government also arrested his prominent supporters with intention to suppress the growing voice of the Sikh Nation. But with the interference of President of India, Punjab government was compelled to drop all the false charges leveled against Bapu Surat Singh Khalsa and his US citizen son Ravinder Jeet Singh Gogi.
With the release of Bapu Surat Singh Khalsa in late April, his supporters started to arrive in Hassanpur in great numbers, lamenting the callous approach of the Punjab government on the matter. Youth members of the Sangharsh Committee motivated other youth to commence awareness of the struggle and lead vangaar marches in favor of Bapu Ji’s struggle.