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    Institution of Akal Takht Under Siege! All Sikhs Must Support Jathedar Bhai Ranjit Singh Ji. New Honest Leadership Must Replace These Corrupt Leaders
                                                                      Dr.Gurmit Singh Aulakh

From Council of Khalistan, Washington DC
To the Khalsa Panth:

This is a wake-up call to the Khalsa Panth! It is time for us to take control of our own destiny. The institution of the Akal Takht is under siege. The actions of Professor Manjit Singh and Jathedar Kewal Singh are a clear effort to usurp the authority of the Akal Takht. It is the duty of all Sikhs to defend the institution of the Akal Takht against these self-promoting usurpers.

Recently Sri Singh Sahib Bhai Ranjit Singh, Jathedar of the Akal Takht, banned Professor Manjit Singh and Kewal Singh from meetings of the Akal Takht at the Golden Temple. This was an appropriate response to their act of diverting funds from both the World Sikh Council and the Gurmat Sagar Trust to advance their own personal ambitions.

Professor Manjit Singh took Hukam Namas and records from the Akal Takht while he was acting Jathedar and has refused repeated requests to return them. These records are not the property of Professor Manjit Singh; they are the property of the Sikh Nation. They must not be removed from Akal Takht Sahib. The Sikh Nation demands that Professor Manjit Singh return these documents and repay the money to WSC and the Gurmat Sagar Trust.

Professor Manjit Singh recently met with the leader of the Nirankari sect, which is banned by Akal Takht. He has stated publicly that only decisions made by all five Jathedars are valid. He has encouraged a lawsuit against Sri Singh Sahib. This is the same Professor Manjit Singh who accepted a bribe of 15 lakh rupees from Parkash Singh Badal, now the Chief Minister, to let him off the hook. It was under Professor Manjit Singh that the Sikh Nation's legitimate demand for Khalistan was watered down to the Amritsar Declaration, which said that if the Sikh Nation was not granted autonomy in six months, they would start a Shantmai Morcha for Khalistan. Under his leadership, this was then further watered down to the Anandpur Sahib Resolution and then finally to total submission to Hindustan.

It was Professor Manjit Singh who was sent to the U.S.A. and other Western countries by the Indian government to "cool down" the Khalistan movement outside India. In New York at the Sikh Day parade in April 1996, Professor Manjit Singh left the podium and refused to speak after the crowd pressed him to raise slogans of "Khalistan Zindabad!" He sat at the feet of Murari Bapu and said that "the time of those who would break away is out, the time of those who want to remain united with India is in." He has betrayed the Khalsa Panth. We recite every day the words "Raj Kare Ga Khalsa," the Khalsa shall rule. He should be immediately removed from his office for what he has done to the Khalsa Panth.

Now SGPC President Tohra is intervening on behalf of Professor Manjit Singh and Kewal Singh to reinstate the status quo. Mr. Tohra says the public should not get involved and that Manjit Singh and Kewal Singh should be allowed to attend the meetings. The Akal Takht represents the whole Sikh Nation. It is not Mr. Tohra's personal fiefdom.

Tohra was the one who installed Manjit Singh in the first place. When it became known that Manjit Singh had diverted the money of the World Sikh Council for personal use, Tohra should have fired him immediately. Instead, he continues to support Professor Manjit Singh against the legitimate authority of the Akal Takht.

Hindustan has encouraged this brutality and corruption to end the struggle for Khalistan. In a free Khalistan, those who have collaborated with the enemies of the Sikh Nation will be forced to face the Khalsa Panth and stand accountable for their actions. The Sikh Nation needs leaders who will speak up for our interests, not those of the RSS.

The Sikh Nation is disgusted by the continual betrayals of the Khalsa Panth by Indian chimchas Badal, Tohra, and Professor Manjit Singh. In 1984 Tohra and Badal told us that anyone who attacked the Golden Temple would have to walk over their dead bodies. I am amazed by how much they have been able to do since they died!

It is time for new leadership to arise in Punjab, Khalistan, leadership that will represent the interests of the Khalsa Panth, not the personal ambitions of a few corrupt individuals. This new leadership must forthrightly call for a Shantmai Morcha (peaceful agitation) to free our homeland from India's brutal occupation. As long as the Sikh leaders make themselves subservient to Hindustan, our Sikh brothers and sisters will continue to suffer and die.

The leadership must speak out forthrightly for a free Khalistan. It must commit itself to achieving this most important goal through peaceful resistance to India's brutal tyranny and by means of an internationally-supervised plebiscite so that our future can be determined democratically. That is the only way that the corruption of the Badal/Tohra/Manjit Singh axis will be defeated and the dignity of the Sikh Nation will be restored.

Mr. Tohra must fire Professor Manjit Singh immediately. It is his duty to ensure that Professor Manjit Singh returns the documents he took from the Akal Takht and repays the money that he misappropriated. Mr. Tohra's failure to do so will show the Sikh Nation again that Mr. Tohra is more interested in his personal ambitions than in the well-being of the Khalsa Panth.

This assault on the Akal Takht must be defeated so that our Sikh brothers and sisters can be freed from tyranny, genocide, and corruption. Only in a free Khalistan will the proper dignity and sanctity of the Akal Takht Jathedar and the basic rights of all people be ensured.

          In Service to the Panth,

   Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh
   President, Council of Khalistan
                                                                           

                                              
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