SACRAMENTO, California: More than 60,000 US-Sikh citizens participated in the second round of the Khalistan referendum, voting to defend US snipers in a historic event organized by the splinter group Sakhs For Justice (SFJ). the police
On January 28 of this year, 127,000 US-Sikhs voted in the first International Referendum on American soil, just a few weeks after the US government announced that India had prevented an attack on the US. Home of the pro-Khalistan leader and the most talked about man in India Gurpatwant Singh Pannu.
Several thousand Sikhs failed to vote in the first round. The election was organized by the SFJ on Sunday, March 31, to accommodate Sikhs who did not vote at the end of the first round of voting overseen by the Independent Punjab Referendum Commission (HHR). The vote was held under heavy security by US police and snipers.
As Election Day dawned, nearly 20,000 Sikh men and women lined up to vote. Throughout the day, thousands of Sikhs remained in the center singing songs of sincere Sikhism, calling for the creation of Khalistan and denouncing Narendra Modi’s plan to kill Sikhs by the Hindutva regime. The vote comes months after Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the Canadian Khalistan referendum leader, was killed by Indian agents inside Canada’s largest Gurdwara.
The fight took place on Sunday, March 31, but the big event began with a ceremony honoring and announcing Jathedar Gurdev Singh Kau, the Sikh religious leader who was brutally executed by the Indian government two days earlier. “Kuami Shaheed” (martyr). from the Sikh nation). Thousands of Sikh families and individuals around Sacramento prayed and paid their respects to Jathedar Kaun as a group of priests read the holy book Sri Guru Granth Sahib from cover to cover. On March 31, the Khalistan Referendum Polling Center in the state capital of California was also named after Shahid Jathedar Kaun.
A few weeks before the Akhand Path Sahib in the capital of California, thousands of Sikhs from all over the world sent an official letter to Giani Ragbir Singh, the current chairman of Sri Akal Takht Sahib and president of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. SGPC). Jathedar Kaunk declared ‘Quami Shaheed’.
Gurdev Singh Kaunke was unanimously declared Chairman of Sri Akal Takht Sahib by the Supreme Assembly (Sarbat Khalsa) of the Sikh People in 1986. Religious and Political Rights of the Sikh Community. Recently, in December 2023, the Punjab Human Rights Commission acknowledged the extrajudicial killing of Jathedar Kaunke by Indian security forces.
Advocate General Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, Advocate General of SFJ, paid tribute to “Shaheed Kaunk, who worked tirelessly for the Sikh right to self-determination”.
Pannun said that Gurdev Singh Kaunk was martyred because he was loyal to the leader of Khalistan and wanted the Sikhs to have a homeland. Pannun said Sikhs have followed Kaunke’s path and sacrificed their lives, including UK-based Sikh leader Paramjeet Singh Pamma, who is imprisoned in Europe on an Indian extradition order.
Gurpatwant Singh Pannun told the crowd, “The Sikh cause was supposed to be emancipated in 1947, but it started with the occupation of India. Since the 1950s, Hindutva has been pressuring the Sikhs to protect and degrade their identity, and this effort continues. In 1984, the regime Congress was ousted.Hindutva attacked the holiest Sikh site, the Golden Temple, in Operation Blue Star and committed genocide against thousands of Sikhs.
The Indian state is complicit in the genocide of Sikhs. Sikhs will do anything to destroy the hegemony of India and build their homeland.”
The Punjab Referendum Commission has announced a new date for the Khalistan referendum which will be held on July 28, 2024 in Calgary, Canada.
