Simranjit Singh Mann Interview

[aksantali]

[Amarjeet Singh_1737]

To be honest even this guy is an idiot. He was the one who caused friction between Taksalis and other jathebandis during the nineties. If I remember correctly he started the rant that Baba Thakur Singh Ji was a congress agent.

Here you go,

http://panthic.org/articles/5047

Edited March 23, 2014 by Amarjeet Singh_1737

[aksantali]

To be honest even this guy is an idiot. He was the one who caused friction between Taksalis and other jathebandis during the nineties. If I remember correctly he started the rant that Baba Thakur Singh Ji was a congress agent.

Here you go,

http://panthic.org/articles/5047

Thanks for sharing Amarjeet Singh ji. Is their any links that that show Mann saying baba thakur ji is a congress agent? Very interesting to know that their was a meeting at maans between kharkus to discuss the election boycott Mann and his father were against the boycott but the kharkus basically threatened/imitated them so they agreed. The election boycott was fatal mistake and was most likely the downfall of the movement....also very surprised to hear former members of babber khalsa in akali dal badal.

[Amarjeet Singh_1737]

Thanks for sharing Amarjeet Singh ji. Is their any links that that show Mann saying baba thakur ji is a congress agent? Very interesting to know that their was a meeting at maans between kharkus to discuss the election boycott Mann and his father were against the boycott but the kharkus basically threatened/imitated them so they agreed. The election boycott was fatal mistake and was most likely the downfall of the movement....also very surprised to hear former members of babber khalsa in akali dal badal.

Jatha Shaheedan has an article on the matter. Look it up on their website. All this is very ambiguous. On one hand you had kharkoos trashing the Indians (there is a billi though which will heavily deny that) and on the other they were sitting with them and negotiating. Maan it seems became an important figure because he possessed some political prominence. Other than that, as far as I understand he isn't very strong willed when it comes to politics. His promise ends along the lines of 'we get Khalistan end of story.' No discussion of the future nothing. Damdami Taksal and others were also against the boycott. Baba Santa Singh Ji of Budha-Dal had predicted something like this would happen. Because to start off with Sant Jarnail Singh Ji did not ask for a Khalistan, yet most of the international kharkoos were gunning for it. Secondly he also said that if the Akalis and the SGPC were allowed to run the show all hell would break lose and it did. Darshan Raagi and co. easily derailed the entire movement. On day one they praised it and on day two questioned the very basis of the movement. Ultimately splits started forming in all jathebandis and ultimately the movement fell but these splits continue. Today we have not one but four branches of Taksal! Despite the fact that Santa Singh did not support the movement, everyone (including the nihungs of the second Budha Dal which fought for the movement) ultimately agreed he could select the next jathedar as the real jathedari was his. The SGPC interfered and now some goon named Balbir Singh runs the show, while Baba Surjit Singh Ji languishes in jail etc. So really no political commodity ever achieved anything significant for Sikhs in the long run.

[tonyhp32]

Simranjeet Singh Mann should have been the CM of Punjab had the suicidal decision to boycott the 1992 election not been taken, I was in India in November -December 1989 when the Lok Sabha elections took place and when the results came in that Mann had won by a record margin in Tarn Taran and that his candidates had routed the traditional Akalis, there was sea change in the atmosphere in Punjab. It could be likened to what happened when the AAP won in Delhi. The Police stopped harassing Sikh youth. The Police pretty much believed that Khalistan would become a reality soon and they saw no reason to fight against it.

[tonyhp32]

Jatha Shaheedan has an article on the matter. Look it up on their website. All this is very ambiguous. On one hand you had kharkoos trashing the Indians (there is a billi though which will heavily deny that) and on the other they were sitting with them and negotiating. Maan it seems became an important figure because he possessed some political prominence. Other than that, as far as I understand he isn't very strong willed when it comes to politics. His promise ends along the lines of 'we get Khalistan end of story.' No discussion of the future nothing. Damdami Taksal and others were also against the boycott. Baba Santa Singh Ji of Budha-Dal had predicted something like this would happen. Because to start off with Sant Jarnail Singh Ji did not ask for a Khalistan, yet most of the international kharkoos were gunning for it. Secondly he also said that if the Akalis and the SGPC were allowed to run the show all hell would break lose and it did. Darshan Raagi and co. easily derailed the entire movement. On day one they praised it and on day two questioned the very basis of the movement. Ultimately splits started forming in all jathebandis and ultimately the movement fell but these splits continue. Today we have not one but four branches of Taksal! Despite the fact that Santa Singh did not support the movement, everyone (including the nihungs of the second Budha Dal which fought for the movement) ultimately agreed he could select the next jathedar as the real jathedari was his. The SGPC interfered and now some goon named Balbir Singh runs the show, while Baba Surjit Singh Ji languishes in jail etc. So really no political commodity ever achieved anything significant for Sikhs in the long run.

Give it a rest. Santa Singh this,. Santa Singh that. You're treating him like his views mattered in Punjab.

[Amarjeet Singh_1737]

For some they actually did.