LEADER of Opposition Mr.Rahul Gandhi continues his anti-national tirade in the United States -- now making a totally false and dirty statement that Sikhs in India do not have religious freedom. He has gone to the extent of stressing that it is difficult for a Sikh in India to wear the traditional turban -- which is nothing but a total lie, a terrible canard, a dirty anti-national narrative aimed at maligning India’s image with falsehood as well as creating religious divide in the larger Indian society. Obviously, he is using a foreign soil to make his filthy, shameful statements to claim attention of the international community. He wants to tell the world that India is a bad place in every which the way. Shame on him! Yes, shame on Mr. Rahul Gandhi -- who enjoys the constitutional position of the Leader of Opposition (LoP) and yet refuses to honour the document that guarantees him freedom of expression even to malign the image of the country and its pious objectives.

 

No Sikh -- man, woman or child -- would ever agree with Mr. Rahul Gandhi that the Sikh community does not have religious freedom in India. And to be frank, no Sikh would ever forget that goons and leaders of Mr. Rahul Gandhi’s Congress party unleashed a massacre of members of the Sikh community just because a couple of Sikhs happened to be the assassins of the then Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi. No historian will ever deny the 1984 anti-Sikh riots that claimed the lives of countless thousands of Sikhs around the country. Delhi alone recorded a massacre of at least 3,000 Sikhs -- as records suggest. It was because of this reality that the honourable courts, too, directed recently the prosecution to proceed against a couple of Congress leaders held squarely responsible for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. But now Mr. Rahul appears determined to wash his hands of those sins -- and so is trying to stress that the present system in the country does not allow religious freedom to the Sikhs.

 

This is sheer blasphemy and falsehood motivated by dirty political interest that does not mind the country’s name getting maligned.Mr. Rahul Gandhi’s statements in the US now and on previous occasions during his foreign trips indicate that he playing into the hands of some anti-India masterminds who seem to have made removing Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi from power their lifetime’s mission. There is no problem of a political action to counter Mr. Narendra Modi -- since such a course is permissible in a democratic polity. What is not permissible is such attempts to impose falsehood and distortion of history on the country. Considering the poison Mr. Rahul Gandhi is trying to spread, it is bounden duty of the Government to consider a strict legal action against him under treason law -- no matter the new set of legal provisions implemented recently. We made this demand in our edition of September 11, 2024 -- and we repeat the demand today in the September 12 edition. (Very rarely do we write editorial articles in successive editions, continued with the same title -- which the esteemed readers must note). We insist that our insistence upon strict action against Mr. Rahul Gandhi is a reflection of the popular feeling that is sweeping the country currently. A person who refuses to learn the right lessons and continues his ugly habit of spreading deliberate distortion and falsehood for years, needs to be suitably punished by law. It is the Government’s basic duty to find ways and means to fulfill this wish of the people of India -- and at the earliest. If the Government fails to do so, then it will lose at least some grains of its moral authority.