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Sarna dares Punjab govt to act against him
WSN Network

NEW DELHI: Even as certain groups continue to loudly protest statements of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee’s (DGMC) chief Paramjit Singh Sarna who has offered to legally and financially support those who had shot at and killed a leader of the Ravidasia dera in Vienna, Sarna himself has refused to budge from his stand.

It seems the Akali Dal government in Punjab is also out to woo the Ravidasia community and is preparing some sort of ground to take action against Sarna. The DSGMC chief has now dared the Punjab government to register a case against him.

“We will do our best to provide the Vienna case suspects all possible legal assistance as is possible,” he has said.

His earlier statement had led to protests and even violent demonstrations in some parts of the Punjab by followers of the Ravi Dass sect. The sect had demanded action against the DGMC chief for his remarks terming them highly provocative and unwarranted. At a demonstration in Doaba last week, protesters had demanded even the registration of a criminal case against Sarna.

"As a Sikh, it is my right to defend and stand by those who volunteer to make supreme sacrifices for defending the tenets and ideals of Sikhism,” Sarna was quoted as saying.

“The bankrupt Punjab government does not have to spend its time or money in arresting me. Let the government tell me when and where I have to present myself before the police, I will do it on my own. Let the Punjab government put me in jail for as long as it wants. But, the consequences for registering a case or putting me in the jail will squarely rest on the Akali government of Punjab,” a report in The Tribune newspaper said.

He turned to rhetoric saying his case would not go to the normal court of law for adjudication but would rather be tried by the larger court of people of Punjab in general and the Sikhs in particular.

5 August 2009
 

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