[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 17]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 22096]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               NEW BOOK DETAILS ATROCITIES AGAINST SIKHS

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                          HON. EDOLPHUS TOWNS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, November 15, 2006

  Mr. TOWNS. Mr. Speaker, in the June issue of the International 
Journal of Sikh Affairs, Dr. Awatar Singh Sekhon reviews a book 
entitled ``Tabai Ros Jagio,'' which translates into English as 
``Details of Fundamentalist Hindus' Attacks on the Sikh Faith,'' by Dr. 
Sukhpreet Singh Udhoke. The book details how the fundamentalist Hindus 
who run India have been attacking Sikhism and other faiths since the 
very earliest days of the Indian republic. Despite the fact that the 
Brahmin caste is only 3 percent of the population, they run Indian 
society, according to Dr. Udhoke.
  Dr. Udhoke details those Sikhs who have supported the Hindu 
fundamentalists in their effort to enforce Hinduism on the entire 
population of India. He details those who connived with India on the 
attack on the Golden Temple, the seat of the Sikh religion. He recorded 
the brutality of the Brahmins and the Hindu fundamentalists. He writes 
about how their umbrella organization, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh 
(RSS), was founded to support the Fascists in Europe. He describes the 
RSS as a terrorist organization. India claims to be our ally in the War 
on Terror, but their preeminent ideology is a brand of Fascism that 
practices violence against minorities and their neighbors.
  We should stop aid and trade with India and we should be vocal and 
active in supporting self-determination for all the people there. That 
is how we can help bring freedom to all in the subcontinent.
  Mr. Speaker, I highly recommend Dr. Sekhon's excellent review of Dr. 
Udhoke's excellent book to my colleagues, and I would like to place the 
review in the Record now.

      [From the International Journal of Sikh, Affairs, June 2006]

                              Book Review

                        (By Awatar Singh Sekhon)

       Title: Tabai Ros Jagio, translation in English Details of 
     Fundamentalist Hindus' Attack on the Sikh Faith 2005, by Dr. 
     Sukhpreet Singh Udhoke, is an eye opener. with regard to the 
     premeditated attacks by the fundamentalist Hindus, belonging 
     to the Rashtriya Swamsewak Sangh and the members of the 
     ``Sangh Parivar/family'', on the followers of the Sikh Faith.
       It was a great pride and pleasure for the reviewer, who is 
     the Editor in Chief, The International Journal of Sikh 
     Affairs ISSN 1481-5435, published from Canada, to write a few 
     words on the publication of Dr. Sukhpreet Singh Udhoke. Dr. 
     Udhoke is a medical professional but is devoting most of his 
     precious time in recording the much needed events of the Sikh 
     history of the 20th and 21st centuries. These events pertain 
     to the persecution of the Sikh youth in particular and for 
     the present and coming generations of the Sikh faith, the 
     Guru Khalsa Panth. Dr. Udhoke's first publication, Tabai Ros 
     Jagio, published in July 2004, was an excellent treatise 
     relating to the ``Attacks on the Sikh faith, Sikh culture, 
     Sikh heritage, Sikh pride, Sikh esteem, Guru Granth Sahib 
     (Holy Scripture of Sikhs), the Sikh identity, and the Sikh 
     nation, Punjab, Khalistan, struggling for its independence by 
     peaceful means.'' His book clearly reflects the intimidation 
     of the Sikhs of their holy and historic homeland, Punjab, by 
     their traditional and notorious enemy, the fundamentalist 
     Hindu organizations as well as the politicians of the 
     preceding and present administrations of the Indian 
     democracy, its New Delhi administrations of J.L. Nehru to 
     Manmohan Singh, run primarily by the Brahmins (who are only 3 
     percent of the total population of India of over a billion 
     hungry mouths) and about 15 percent pro-Brahmins. This group 
     has captured more than 80 percent of the total decision-
     making jobs of the Indian administration. Dr. Sukhpreet Singh 
     Udhoke's task at hand was not an easy one, especially when 
     his, his forefathers, and the Sikhs' holy and historic 
     homeland is under the occupation of the Sikhs' enemy, the 
     Brahmins, ``Butchers of our world'', according to the founder 
     of the Sikh faith, Guru Nanak Sahib.
       The Indian administration and their international news 
     media's term, the ``largest democracy of the world'', India, 
     made Dr. Udhoke's task highly difficult in describing the 
     reality and tragedy of the Sikh nation, Punjab, and beyond 
     the understanding of an ordinary citizen of the Sikhs' holy 
     and historic homeland.
       It is amply clear that the Sikh leaders, of Punjab so to 
     speak, and most commonly known as the Dastaardhari (turbaned) 
     Hindus in the Sikh identity, have failed to respond to the 
     psyche and aspirations of the Sikhs of Punjab, the Sikh 
     Diaspora and the Sikh nation. Rather, these Dastaardhari 
     Hindus in the Sikh Identity have fallen into the trap of the 
     Brahmins and pro-Brahmins. The day in and the day out, the 
     Sikhs' Darbar Sahib Complex (Golden Temple Complex), which 
     includes the Supreme Seat of Sikh Polity, Akal Takht Sahib, 
     Amritsar, and other religious and political places of the 
     Sikhs, Gurdwaras (Houses of God), are desecrated, to 
     humiliate the Sikh nation. The saddest moment of the Sikh 
     history of post-15th August, 1947, is that a Dastaardhari 
     Hindu in the Sikh Identity, Prakash Singh Badal, his clan and 
     the Badal faction of Akali Dal were the party for the 
     desecration of Darbar Sahib Complex. So much so the 
     custodian, the so-called jathedar, of Akal Takht Sahib, 
     Vedanti Joginder Singh Saran actively watched the ball game 
     of his employer, the executive of the Shiromani Gurdwara 
     Prabhandhak Committee (SGPC), and SGPC's member as well as 
     the president of the Akali Dal-Badal faction, Prakash Singh 
     Badal himself. What an unfortunate part of the Sikh history!
       The present and former custodians of the Akal Takht Sahib, 
     Vedanti Joginder Singh Saran, Puran Singh of Luv and Kush, 
     Manjit of Kesgarh, Kirpal Singh, etc. failed to provide any 
     directions to the Sikh Nation, Guru Khalsa Panth or the Sikhs 
     of Punjab. They however, collaborated with the enemy of the 
     Guru Khalsa Panth.
       Dr. Sukhpreet Singh Udhoke, a young Sikh full of energies, 
     recorded in his book, the brutality of the Sikhs' traditional 
     enemies, the Brahmins and pro-Brahmins belonging to the 
     Hindumahasabha (mother of all evils) and its offshoots such 
     as Swam Sevak Sangh, Jansangh, Rashtriya Swamsewak Sangh 
     (RSS), a terrorist organization as declared by the United 
     States administration, Rashtriya Sikh Sangat (formed at the 
     directions of A. B. Vajpayee and his clique in 1990s) the 
     ``Sangh family'', responsible for anti-non-Brahmin and anti-
     non-Hindus activities, and other such organizations, as well 
     as the activities of the Saffaronized fundamentalist Hindu 
     organizations Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Hanuman Sena, Shiv Sena, 
     Bajrang Dal, to cite a few. The RSS was formed in support of 
     the Fascists of Europe. Dr. Udhoke has exposed 
     Saffaronization of the Sikh history, disrespect and character 
     assassination of the Sikh Gurus, Guru Nanak Sahib to Sahib 
     Guru Gobind Singhji, by these organizations and their 
     supporters. Finally, I wish Dr. Sukhpreet Singh Udhoke, who 
     is a gifted and prolific writer and speaker all the best. May 
     the the Almighty Lord shower. His blessings on him.

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