Canadian Sikh leader Ripudaman Singh Malik has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlining a series of measures his government is taking for the Sikh community . He expressed his “heartfelt gratitude” for the unprecedented positive steps taken by the Modi government.
“I am writing this letter to express my heartfelt gratitude to you for the unprecedented positive steps you have taken to address the demands and grievances of long-read Sikhs, including the lifting of restrictions on visits by thousands of Sikhs living abroad. India’s blacklisting, issuing passports and visas to asylum seekers and their families, reopening hundreds of closed cases from the 1984 riots resulted in the conviction and imprisonment of some, the then Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh announced on the floor of the House of Representatives in 1984. Year riots for “genocide”, give compensation or rupees. $500,000 per family of anti-Sikh genocide victims, opening of Sri Kartarpur Saheb corridor for pilgrims from India to visit our first guru Nanak Dev Ji’s exalted place,” he said in the letter.
He also expressed his joy at the statement made on December 26 – the martyrdom of Guru Gobind Singh’s sons – for “Veer Baal Diwas”.
Meanwhile, Singh expressed concern over an “orchestrated campaign” by some misguided members of the Sikh community against the Modi government and India. He said this was at the request of some foreign powers interested in destabilizing India and challenging its national integrity.
Singh pledged to work with the Indian government to resolve outstanding issues.
In another letter to the Sikh community, Singh urged them to stop the vicious and positive movement.
“Violence in Punjab will only end up harming the interests of Punjab and the Sikh community in India as a whole and around the world. I do Ardas for world peace every day because I don’t like to see my community or any community suffer from violence ,” he said in the letter.
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