Responding to the call of Damdami Taksal for Punjab shutdown on Dec 7,
scores of activists of various organizations took out a joint procession on
the streets and lanes of Amritsar to protest against the killing of Darshan
Singh Lohara in Ludhiana on Dec 5.
Upset about the overall functioning of the Shiromani Gurdwara
Parbandhak Committee, the Dal Khalsa along with other Panthic bodies has
called for a complete overhaul of the apex body of the Sikhs.
Sikh
representatives from various groups under the leadership of
Justice (retd) Ajit Singh Bains met Ms Shalini Dewan, Director,
United Nations Information Centre at New Delhi on Nov 11, 2009
and urged the UN to intervene.
Under the aegis of the Khalsa Action Committee- a conglomerate
of various religious and political organizations of Punjab, the
Dal Khalsa has resolved to observe complete strike on Nov 3 to
mark the 25th year of Nov 1984 anti-Sikh carnage.
The organization under the aegis of Khalsa
Action Committee launched a Signature campaign against the death
penalty to mark the occasion of World Day against the Death
Penalty. Party activists camped at the entrance gate of Darbar Sahib for
3 hours to draw people’s attention and create awareness against the death
penalty.
Remembering
its founder member Gajinder Singh, who hijacked the Indian plane
in 1981 and whose name figures in the 20 most wanted list handed
over to Pakistan by the Indian Union government, the Dal Khalsa
and other Sikh bodies asked the UN to ensure that civil and
political rights of Gajinder Singh are restored and he should be
granted full liberty to pursue his personal and political life,
without fear and intervention of any kind.
After
fighting a long legal battle, finally Sarbjit Singh Ghuman has
got a temporary reprieve. On the directions of the Panjab and
Haryana High Court he has been released on bail on Sep 10, 2009
from the high security jail of Nabha.