The All-India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF) has announced that it will not allow LK Advani’s rath yatra to enter Punjab because of the BJP leader’s “history of spreading communal disharmony and provoking violence against religious minorities during his previous yatras”.
AISSF president Karnail Singh Peermohammad said in a statement here today: “In his book, My Country, My Life, Advani has taken the credit for having a hand in the Indian Government’s military action on the Golden Temple at Amritsar in June 1984, which resulted in the demolition of Akal Takht Sahib, leading to the death of thousands of Sikh pilgrims and subsequent wave of violence against Sikhs all across the country, which continued for more than a decade.”
Keeping in view Advani’s historical past, Peermohammad said, they would not allow him to disrupt Punjab’s communal harmony. “In 1992, it was his rath yatra that caused the demolition of Babri Masjid and his party, the BJP, was also “responsible” for the killing of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 and the massacre of Christians in Orissa in 2008.
News Source: Tribune
