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Warring slams jathedar for weaponising Sikh youth rhetoric
PPCC president Warring wondered what message the jathedar was trying to give to the world in general and the Sikh community in particular by calling for providing arms training to Sikh youth
Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring on Monday lashed out at Akal Takht jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh for his repeated calls for providing arms training to the Sikh youth.
The PPCC president wondered what message the jathedar was trying to give to the world in general and the Sikh community in particular.
“Jathedar sahib, your fascination for weaponising Sikhs goes beyond the rationale of peaceful coexistence. Are you advocating training of weapons for all or only Sikhs and won’t it breed insecurity and mistrust amongst the rest?” he asked in a statement.
After his recent controversial remarks advising Sikhs to keep licensed weapons, the acting jathedar during his customary address at an event organised to mark the Operation Bluestar anniversary at the Golden Temple on Monday urged Sikh institutions to “open modern and traditional weapon training centres” to train youngsters.
Asserting that this will do no good to Punjab, Warring said the suggestion for training the Sikh youth could not have come at a wrong time as Punjab was still mourning the death of prominent singer Sidhu Moose Wala, who fell to the bullets of criminals at a young age of 28.
He urged the Akal Takht jathedar that instead of preaching arms training, he should spread the message of peace that Sikh religion teaches and not the violence as training youth in using modern arms can only lead to violence.
