Is the Veteran Punjab Congress leader Capt. Amarinder Singh, who just swept into power in the state with a 77 seat sweep after a 10 year Akali-BJP government, misinformed, has bad advisors or just trying to play "Sikh Genocide In India" politics with his ill-advised comments that he won't meet Canadian Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan because he is a "Khalistani Sympathizer"! While Sajjan is largely an ineffective politician and Minister but he is no "Khalistani Sympathizer". In fact Sajjan is so white-washed that when they were forming the first Sikh Cadet unit in Surrey – he was dead set against it being called "Sikh". 

By R. Paul Dhillon

With News Files

SURREY – Is the Veteran Punjab Congress leader Capt. Amarinder Singh, who just swept into power in the state with a 77 seat sweep after a 10 year Akali-BJP government, misinformed, has bad advisors or just trying to play "Sikh Genocide In India" politics with his ill-advised comments that he won't meet Canadian Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan because he is a "Khalistani Sympathizer"!

While Sajjan is largely an ineffective politician and Minister but he is no "Khalistani Sympathizer". In fact Sajjan is so white-washed that when they were forming the first Sikh Cadet unit in Surrey – he was dead set against it being called "Sikh". 

So the aging Capt. Amarinder Singh is either suffering from "Power Overload" or misinformed with bad advisors or just trying to play "Sikh Genocide" politics with the recent passing of the Ontario provincial "Sikh Genocide in India" motion last week.

The Congress party and government is obviously forever tainted and burdened with the Sikh "mass murder" in New Delhi and elsewhere in India and haven't really dealt with the crime in any meaningful way by punishing the party criminals or offering any kind of real relief or justice to the victims or the Indian Sikh community.

The bad odour of the "Genocide" still lingers and perhaps Amarinder Singh doesn't know how to deal with it but making such statements will not help his cause or win him any sympathy or support with majority of Sikhs in India or abroad.

In fact, after winning the huge mandate in Punjab – he has the power to dictate to the Congress high command in Delhi that the party needs to offer a sincere apology, do everything in it's power to bring those accused to justice and offer something concrete to the victims and the larger Sikh community.

This will help move the Congress forward and once and for all leave this dark legacy of the party – which claims to be secular and not communal like Narendra Modi-led BJP with it's own demons in Gujarat – behind.

Starting afresh is the only way forward. Making false statements about Sikh leaders in Canada or elsewhere is only shooting yourself in the knee.

SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY: Capt. Amarinder Singh cosy with "alleged ISI spy" Aroosa from Pakistan but shunning his Sikh brothers from abroad like Canadian Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan.

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Here is what Amarinder Singh said in regards to Sajjan's upcoming visit to India.

Dubbing Sajjan a “Khalistani sympathiser”, Punjab chief minister on Wednesday said he will not meet the Indo-Canadian leader during his expected visit to India later this month.

“Harjit Sajjan is a Khalistani sympathiser,” Amarinder alleged on the ‘Off the Cuff’ TV show by Shekhar Gupta. The chief minister claimed that there were, in fact, five ministers in Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's government who were Khalistani sympathisers and he would not have any truck with them.

 “They had prevailed upon the government to prevent my entry into Canada, where I wanted to go to meet my Punjabi brethren and not to campaign for elections,” he was quoted as saying in a release issued by his team after the programme.

Amarinder, whose poll campaign in Canada was stalled last year in the run-up to the Punjab assembly elections, had responded by accusing some Canadian ministers of having “Khalistani leanings” then too. The Canadian defence minister is expected to travel to India this month in his first visit since his appointment as minister

Amarinder was candid on other issues too. Asked about beef ban, he said people had the right to, and should be allowed to, eat whatever they wanted.

The CM also said that he was not in favour of a ban on Pakistani artistes, and said he would be happy to invite them to Punjab and would also love to visit Pakistan again.

“It is time to mend fences and make friends with Pakistan,” he said, urging New Delhi to be wary of China on the other border.

As for his party, seeing a “deliberate malicious attempt” by vested interests to pull down Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, Amarinder also urged the people to give him (Rahul) a chance. There is a clear conspiracy against Rahul who is being targeted with ridiculous names, he said.

Captain said that he had always found Rahul “extremely perceptive” and willing to listen, besides being open to suggestions and ideas.

On the controversial issue of possible tampering of electronic voting machines, Amarinder said had the EVMs been tampered with in Punjab, he would “not be sitting here today”. However, he was quick to note that it was important to find out the reason for many advanced countries refusing to adopt EVMs.