Will dispel RSS phobia among Sikhs, says Malwa leader

Sushil Goyal

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Tribune News Service

Sangrur, July 9

Rajdev Singh Khalsa — former Sangrur MP, a radical Sikh leader and newly appointed in charge of Rashtriya Sikh Sangat (a wing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) of the Malwa region — today said he was working towards dispelling a phobia among people that the RSS was an enemy of the Sikhs.

He said this phobia had been created by the Congress and other parties for political gains.

“The RSS is not an anti-Sikh organisation as it had helped Sikhs by organising camps after the massacre of Sikhs in 1984 while the Congress had openly supported rioters who killed thousands of Sikhs,” he said.

Talking to TNS here today, Khalsa termed the RSS an organisation of nationalists and patriots. He said no one could narrate even a single instance to prove that the RSS was anti-Sikh.

He said he was of the view that he and his team would be able to do away with this phobia in six months or a year in the Malwa region. After that, district units of the Rashtriya Sikh Sangat would be formed in all districts of the Malwa region, he added.

He said he had joined the Rashtriya Sikh Sangat as it supported his ideology that Sikhs were a separate nation with unique identity and they were not a part of the Hindu religion.

Khalsa said, “We are true nationalists and supporters of national integration and unity. We also support the merger of Pakistan with India for the creation of Akhand Bharat and harmony among people of both countries.”

He justified the indefinite fast by Bapu Surat Singh Khalsa for the release of Sikh prisoners who had completed their jail terms.