HSGPC volunteer Jarnail Brar unwillingly removed from indefinite fast- SIKHS Agitated

• HSGPC volunteer Jarnail Singh Brar unwillingly removed from indefinite fast by administration on health ground.
• Sikhs agitated, leaders from Haryana reach Sirsa, condemns Administration and Congress.
• Sikh leaders Jhinda, Tilokewala and Sukhwinder Khalsa address community.
• Brar refutes administrations claim of deteriorating health.

SIRSA NEWS ( www.SirsaNews.com )

27 February, 2014

Pictures and Videos: Amar Singh Jyani, GS Mann, Background Music: Murari Verma.

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Watch Video -1: Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (HSGPC) volunteer Jarnail Singh Brar unwillingly removed from Indefinite Fast at 'Dharna' opposite residence of HPCC President Dr. Ashok Tanwar and Taken to Hospital by Sirsa Administration with the help of POLICE force. Sikhs supporting Separate Gurdwara Committee Hurt- Jhinda. In this Video: Interviews of DC Dr J Ganesan, HSGPC (Adhoc) President Jagdish Jhinda, Jarnail Singh Brar, Medical Summery of Jarnail Singh Brar, Sikhs protesting and raising slogans against Congress and Administration. SSP Saurabh Singh and DC Dr J Ganesan negotiating with protesting Sikhs at Dharna site.

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Watch 27^th February 2014 Video-2: HSGPC Continues Dharna at Sirsa Another Sikh volunteer- Swarn Singh Ratia Sits on Indefinite Fast after the unwilling removal of Jarnail Singh Brar by administration on health grounds. Brar was on indefinite fast since 21st February 2014 in front of residence of Dr Ashok Tanwar HPCC president pressing for demand of announcement of separate Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee for Haryana. In this Video: Meeting of Sikhs, Interviews and speeches of Jagdish Singh Jhinda, Sant Gurmeet Singh Tilokewala, Bhai Sukhwinder Singh Khalsa, Comrade Swarn Singh Virk, Sardar Swarn Singh Ratia, visuals of the meeting.

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The health of Jarnail Singh Brar, who is sitting on an indefinite fast outside state Congress chief Ashok Tanwar’s residence on the issue of a separate gurdwara body for Haryana, has started deteriorating. The police removed Brar from the dharna site and admitted him to General Hospital this evening.

Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee chief Jagdish Singh Jhinda announced today that Sikhs in the state would oppose the Congress in the upcoming parliamentary elections if the state government failed to accept their demand.

Brar, who is sitting on an indefinite fast since February 21, has lost 8 kg and is feeling weak, said other protesters. A doctor visited Brar today and examined his health.

The issue of a separate gurdwara panel for Haryana has been going on since 2001, when the HSGPC was set up with Jagdish Singh Jhinda as its president and Didar Singh Nalvi, who heading a parallel faction of the committee, as its general secretary.

“In fact, a separate gurdwara panel was not merely a demand. It as a legal right accorded to them under Section 72 (2) of the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966,” said Jhinda.

In the elections for the SGPC held in 2004, the HSGPC had won seven out of 11 seats in the state, posing a serious challenge to the Shiromani Akali Dal headed by Parkash Singh Badal.

Both Jhinda and Nalvi won their elections.

“Impressed by our success, the Congress, which was facing opposition from Sikhs since the 1984 riots, approached us. We never went to the party with our demand. The Congress sought our support for the 2005 Assembly elections on the promise that we will get a separate SGPC if the Congress came to power,” said Jhinda. But the demand is yet to be fulfilled.

With the parliamentary elections round the corner, the Jhinda faction has again started agitating outside Tanwar’s residence, while the Nalvi faction, supporting Brar’s fast, has announced to contest the poll under a newly constituted political outfit Haryana Janshakti Party.

With inputs from The Tribune, Courtesy: The Tribune