Dr Jagjit Singh Chohan’s Death Reminds
‘A distasteful memorial period of deception’

Balbir Singh Sooch*

Dr Jagjit Singh Chohan on the question of demand of Khalistan is a suspect and remained so throughout in eyes of Sikhs and judging similar behavioral standard like him being “Khalistanis”   is really a misfortune of Sikhs and betrayal on the part of living “Khalistanis” is purely a meanness.

Moreover, they are also to be suspected as human beings on the Earth keeping in view their past misdeeds of dishonesty and cruelty with their own people and here is not the end for them. In fact, living Khalistanis sidetracked from the concept of self sacrifice for just cause followed by the Sikh Gurus. Is it the politics to achieve Khalistan? If answer is yes then we have to say good bye to Khalistan and have to approach to international forums for justice for all!

The questions posed by Sirdar Gurmit Singh Khalsa, Justice of Peace are very relevant in the context and even need no answer being self explanatory e.g. I put a question to Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann at Central Jail, Ludhiana in July 2005 that it is being said all over that Sikhs fortune is to be connected with congress otherwise there is no alternative left. Sir, Is it? He chose to keep quite and thereafter no answer was required from him in this context.

“1. Before leaving India during 1980's, what work Dr. Jagjit Singh Chohan was engaged and where?

2) When and under what circumstances, he moved to UK?

3) For how long he remained in UK and whether he had acquired UK's citizenship and how was he supporting himself and his family?

4) If he was not granted asylum in UK, whether his Indian Passport was being renewed from time to time?

5) What happened to his Office in UK from where he was issuing Khalistan Currency and unrecognised PassPorts?

6) When had he left UK and under which Passport he returned to India?

7) Except some occasional statements in the Yellow Press, what concrete steps were taken to set up the Independent State of Sikhs as per SGPC's  Resolution dated 9 March 1946?

Thanks
Gurmit Singh”

Remembering and commenting about the departed soul by all concerned including Dr. Sohan Singh, Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann etc only indicates the gloomy picture of all the living “Khalistanis”, nothing new to elaborate further at this juncture. It is like an occasion to enjoy their disunity for Indian agencies. The common Sikhs made to repent till date and to continue so hereafter as how they were humiliated & kept in clutches of State repression and their innocents declared disappeared and liquidated without any justice. The many opportunists and greedy feel promoted and beneficiaries out of the sufferings of the people. What a shameful gain!

*Chief and Spokesperson
Sikh Vichar Manch
April 6, 2007

www.sikhvicharmanch.com 

From: Gurmit Singh <GurmitSingh@exemail.com.au> 1:04 pm (1 hour ago) 
To: Balbir Singh Sooch svmanch@gmail.com
Date: Apr 6, 2007 1:04 PM
Subject: RE: Dr Jagjit Singh Chohan’s Death Reminds –A distasteful memorial period of deception
Mailed-by: exemail.com.au 

Thanks for highlighting and sharing with the well-wishers of the Guru Panth.

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Who is dictating to give new version and narrow down the idea of Khalistan War?

Balbir Singh Sooch 

“iewQy gOrqlb hY ik sR[ mfn dy ipqf sR[ joigMdr isMG mfn dy zf cOhfn nfl bVy gihry sMbMD rhy hn. dl Kflsf df sMgTn sR joigMdr isMG mfn aqy zf[ jgjIq isMG cOhfn ny iklHf s[ hrnfm isMG PiqhgVH sfihb ivc kIqf sI. sR[ joigMdr isMG mfn dI pRyrxf sdkf hI zf[ cOhfn vlYq ivc Kfilsqfn df pRcfr krn leI gey sn”.

1.        About the founder’s names of Dal Khalsa and idea of Khalistan War as stated by Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann.

2.         New version- never earlier heard from Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann and other activists of Dal Khalsa.

3.         Is it a new idea to disown, discredit and isolate the inventors of Khalistan including the heroes languishing in Jails and sacrificed for the cause?

The following lines i.e. new theory being propagated to say that idea of Khalistan War generated only by Sardar Joginder Singh Mann. It is also alleged first time at time of death of Dr. Chauhan that founders of Dal Khalsa are Sardar Joginder Singh Mann & Dr. Jagjit Singh Chohan. Who is dictating to give new version and narrow down the idea of Khalistan War?

The founder’s name of Dal Khalsa is Gaini Zail Singh and place is Aroma Hotel/Restaurant at Chandigah where it came into existence on 13 April 1978 as stated by Founder President of Sikh Vichar Manch at Pages 26-27 of Samen Da Sachch (Sikh Dukhant) published by Sikh Vichar Manch and it was never contradicted by Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann now new version- place being told Qila Sardar Harnam Sinngh, Fatehgarh Sahib and founders namely Sardar Joginder Singh Mann & Dr. Jagjit Singh Chohan.

It is purely a new version and never earlier heard from Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann and other activists of Dal Khalsa.

“iewQy gOrqlb hY ik sR[ mfn dy ipqf sR[ joigMdr isMG mfn dy zf[ cOhfn nfl bVy gihry sMbMD rhy hn. dl Kflsf df sMgTn sR[ joigMdr isMG mfn aqy zf[ jgjIq isMG cOhfn ny iklHf s[ hrnfm isMG PiqhgVH sfihb ivc kIqf sI. sR[ joigMdr isMG mfn dI pRyrxf sdkf hI zf[ cOhfn vlYq ivc Kfilsqfn df pRcfr krn leI gey sn”.

Sardar Joginder Singh Mann & Dr. Jagjit Singh Chohan are not alive to clear the picture as they never alleged so during their lives time. Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann used to say to media that I am not answerable for deeds or misdeeds of his father on the question of his role to establish ‘Hem Kund’ and his other related activities.  Now Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann is becoming the heir saying that only Khalistanis were Sardar Joginder Singh Mann & Dr. Jagjit Singh Chohan.

To my mind though the memory of the people is said to be very short but such new statement is not motiveless and given aimlessly and requires further research and investigation to test veracity of Sardar Mann and motive behind it. 

Is it new idea to disown, discredit and isolate the inventors of Khalistan including the heroes languishing in Jails and sacrificed for the cause?

At this stage, it seems to be mischievous and does not enhance the credibility of Sardar Mann like Dr. Jagjit Singh Chohan in any manner.

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*Chief and Spokesperson
Sikh Vichar Manch
April 15, 2007
www.sikhvicharmanch.com

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Subject:  [ANZ_SIKHS] RE: The Question is put to all Khalistanis including me as a Sikh 

From: Gurmit Singh <gurmitsingh@exemail.com.au>
Reply-To: ANZ_SIKHS@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 12:41 PM
To: Balbir Sooch <sooch50@hotmail.com>,
Subject: [ANZ_SIKHS] RE: The Question is put to all Khalistanis including me as a Sikh
Dear Advocate Balbir Singh Sooch, Sikh Vichar Manch (Ludhiana - Punjab),

It is not clear why Author/Journalist Khushwant Singh has been asking this Question to any Khalistani? Why can't he see and refer to the "Maps" reproduced by him at Pages 3, 186, 218 and 290 in his Book: A History of the SIKHS - Volume 1: 1469 – 1839 (1999 Edition) and then select any one Map of his own choice, provided he has the authority to grant Independence to the Sikhs like any other Nations of the world as per UN Charter? He should also know that there are about (150) Independent countries though population of each is far less than the Sikhs.

When you happen to meet him, please request him to assist the Sikhs by achieving an "Independent Sikh State" as per SGPC's Resolution passed on 9 March 1946 and reproduced at pages 236-237 in Book: Shiromani Gurduara Parbandhak Committee Daa 50 Sala Itehaas by S. Shamsher Singh Ashok (Edition April 1998, published by Sikh Itehaas Research Board, (SGPC), Sri Amritsar.

May Akaal Purkh bless him robust health, sound head and a very long life.
Gurmit Singh (Sydney)

From: Balbir Sooch [mailto:sooch50@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, 29 April 2007 11:58 AM
Subject:  [ANZ_SIKHS] RE: The Question is put to all Khalistanis including me as a Sikh

“Question: I have often challenged them to draw me a map of what they conceive as Khalistan in which Sikhs will have as much of a majority as they do in our Punjab of today. Not one has taken up my challenge.
Khushwant Singh”

The Question is put to all Khalistanis including me as a Sikh!
WHO WILL ANSWER?
In absence of any answer to the question and at the same time question in face of injustice in India without suggesting any remedy so far only amounts to deception with Sikhs since long. Is it not?
By Balbir Singh Sooch

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http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070428/saturday/above.htm
Saturday, April 28, 2007

This Above all
In pursuit of a futile cause
Khushwant Singh

THE death last month of Dr Jagjit Singh Chohan (79) in his village Tanda reminded me of his case against me and my encounter with other protagonists of a separate Sikh state, notably Ganga Singh Dhillon, Gurmeet Singh Aulakh and Simranjeet Singh Mann. I never met Chohan but he took me to court in London and Chandigarh. He had set up an embassy of the republic of Khalistan in London with a Nihang guarding the entrance. He issued passports and currency notes of Khalistan. He made Sikhs a laughing stock. I wrote about him in Volume IIof my Religion & History of the Sikhs. He claimed Ihad libelled him and asked for damages of over a million pounds sterling from my publishers — Oxford Press — and me. It was a jury trial. Chohan attended the hearings every day, taking with him a few patriarchs with long flowing beards. He produced some witnesses, including an English woman Joyce Pettigrew, author Robber Barons, a book on Sikh zamindars Ihad rubbished in my columns. I could not travel to London but sent affidavits signed, among others, by President Zail Singh, SJS Chhatwal, retired High Commissioner to Canada, and a couple of old fellow villagers of Chohan to the effect that as a young man he had not conformed to the Khalsa tradition of having his hair and beard unshorn. The judge put two questions to the jury: Had I libelled Chohan? if so, what damages would they award to him? To the first question the jury affirmed that I had libelled Chohan. To the amount of damages to be given to Chohan, the jurors fixed the amount at one penny. Chohan claimed victory. He never asked me for the one penny he had won. I still owe him a penny. I’ve no idea what came of the case he and some relative of his filed against me in Chandigarh.

I have strong views on the claim of a separate, sovereign state for Sikhs or any similar demand for an independent state to be carved out of India. Ibelong to the Sikh community but regard Khalistanis as the worst enemies of the Khalsa Panth and traitors to the country.

I have often challenged them to draw me a map of what they conceive as Khalistan in which Sikhs will have as much of a majority as they do in our Punjab of today. Not one has taken up my challenge. Twenty per cent of the community lives outside Punjab — farmers in Ganganagar district of Rajasthan and the Terai in Uttarakhand, Sikh industrialists, professionals, and tradesmen prosper in all parts of the country. What will become of them if, God forbid, they get away with a Sikh state? Another mass migration of refugees? They never answer these questions because they never bother to think about them.

They are singularly brainless and unconcerned about the future of the community. Another Khalistani Simranjit Singh Mann won his election to the Lok Sabha but refused to enter it because he was not allowed to carry a kirpan of the length he wanted. No other Sikh MP before or after him found that a problem. Gurmeet Singh Aulakh and Ganga Singh Dhillon continued to live in Washington. Aulakh used to issue bulletins in support of Khalistan. (He sent me some in which he had written something nasty about me). He has fallen silent. Ganga Singh Dhillon lives in a large house overlooking Potomac river. I had a long luncheon session with him. I advised him to change his name and instead of polluting waters of the Ganga, he should pollute those of the Potomac.

The demand for Khalistan met the fate it deserved. It died an ignominious death. But let it be a lesson to others who periodically make noises about separating the states in which they live from India. They are voices of treason which the people themselves should silence.