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Warrants and Sorry Game
of the Dera of Semantics
 Talk is in the air
once again of a new muaafinama from the dera. When the entire
political establishment in Punjab was busy with the goings on in the
Punjab Assembly and Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal was
reading out his long-winded budget speech, many were looking for
thrills in the boring documents likely to termed as a dream budget
by the establishment and its stooges. But far more thrilling stuff
was happening outside, of course in a hush hush manner as is the
nature of all cloak and dagger operations.
Representatives of Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim were
networking with the sympathetic quarters in the Akali Dal and
trying to reach out to the clergy, ready with a newly drafted
(crafted?) apology in hand, this time saying sorry to the Sikh
sangat instead of the earlier tactic of addressing the muaafi to
tenth Sikh master Guru Gobind Singh.
The
CBI now has the deadline of end of July to submit the final report
in the murder case in which Gurmeet Ram Rahim is a prime accused and
the baba is under prssure to pull a rabbit out of his jaam-e-insa to
escape the law. As it became pretty clear that he was ready to
organise a function at Salabatpura dera, the scene of the violent
protests some time back, the Akali Dal-BJP regime got seriously into
the act and the Bathinda police was asked to move the court to
obtain the arrest warrants of the dera baba.
This is aimed at stopping the baba from entering Bathinda and a poor
attempt to try and confine him to Haryana, something which can
enable Badal to say that it was out of the purview of his government
to arrest the man who insulted the Sikh religion, imitated the tenth
Guru and continues to remain unrepentant. He is now announcing that
the nam-charcha dramas will rather increase and has already repeated
the copycat action of amrit sanchar ceremony with a jaam-e-insa
function at Sirsa on June 10.
The
Sikh sangat has seen the intensive efforts by the Badal camp to
somehow torpedo all panthic actions, the latest being his move of
landing at the dharna site in Mohali and asking the Sant Samaj not
to court arrest. If he respected the Sants so much, why did his
police stop them from proceeding towards the secretariat? Then came
the instruction from the Akal Takht jathedar Giani Joginder Singh
Vedanti, brought by none other than SGPC president Avtar Singh
Makkar. No messenger would have succeeded in racing against time as
Makkar did that day, getting the missive to the Sants by 9 pm.
The
WSN understands that the efforts by Gurmeet Ram Rahim to somehow
hoodwink the sangat with some semantic play and crafted apologies
will continue till he finds someone who can get him off the hook,
but let it be said clearly that the Sikh quom will accept a line of
action only and only when it is taken after taking the entire Khalsa
Panth into confidence.
Meanwhile, the strategy to keep behind bars men like Simranjit Singh
Mann and entangle in cases leaders like Bhai Daljit Singh Bittu will
only harm the Sikh cause.
The
quom is so far united, despite many provocations to the contrary,
under the banner of the Akal Takht, and it is up to the clergy and
the panthic leadership to ensure that this unity is maintained. The
only way is the Khalsa way of collective decision making. Cloak and
dagger is an alternative too poor to succeed.
20 June, 2007
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