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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Operation Blue Star: Congressee sauda, Dera Sacha  Sauda  </b>
http://www.newsanalysisindia.com/115052007.htm
By Pemendra  agrawal  15-5-07 

Congress drew a  sect Dera Sacha Sauda in politics for the creation of Operation Blue Star like  situation. Congress got fatwa from Dera chief in its favor in the previous held  assembly election of Punjab. Congress developed the leadership of Bhinderwale to  divide Shiromani Akali Dal and later supported Nirankaris to crush the  Bhinderwale. 

<b>From where the name Dera  Sacha Sauda came </b>
Dera Sacha  Sauda sect in fact follows Sikh Panth and Guru Nanak Saheb. The name of  Dera sacha sauda is also picked up from an incident of the life of Guru  Nanak. One day father of Guru Nanak sent his son for purchasing some goods  and gave money fot that. Nanak dev went but he gave all money to the  saints and came back home. Nanak dev replied his father that he  distributed the money between the needy saints and that was a sacha sauda.  Thus Dera picked up this name. But in later as happened generally every  new sect, begins to compete their original panth. Perhaps this same is  happening now with Dera sacha sauda as happened with Nirankaris. Congress  as its character gives fuel to the fire.

<b>Creation of  Operation Blue Star by Congress </b>
In the Pre-Operation Blue Star period  the former S.G.P.C. Akali, and experienced politician Jail Singh, on the  instruction of Congress High Command dreamed the best way to break up the S.G.P.C. Akali Dal/Bhartiya  Jan Sangh (Preesent BJP) coalition was to wean the Sikh support away from the  S.G.P.C.

As the historian Patwant Singh  comments: “The person chosen for the role was Jarnail Singh Bhindranwala, a  seminary preacher with a considerable knowledge of the Sikh  scriptures,”

Jail Singh with Congress played his  clever card to destroy the Akali Dal/Bhartiya Jang Sang coalition by encouraging  the Sant Nirankaris to hold a convention in Amritsar. This in turn gave  JailSingh a weapon with which to potentially smash the Akali Dal/Jan Sangh  coalition. Jail Singh was fully aware that the Sant Nirankaris were considered a  heretical Sikh sect and perceived by most Sikhs as a enemy of Sikhism. Sant  Nirankaris asked the Punjab government permission to hold the convention in  Amritsar, this put the Akali Dal in a predicament. 

Jail Singh had played his card well  and the Akali Dal decided to let the convention go ahead and weather the storm  of Sikh protest. On 13th April 1978, the Nirankari  convention took place in Amritsar. A fanatical agricultural inspector named  Fauja Singh, affiliated with the Akhand Kirtani Jatha and Bhindrawala marched  through the streets of Amritsar to confront the Sant Nirankaris. Thirteen of  the, followers of Bhrindranwale, and three or four Nirankaris were  shot.

The Congress Party began to whip up  anti-Sant Nirankari sentiments amongst the Sikhs via their Congress-controlled  Sikh temples in Delhi. Not wishing to alienate their coalition partners, the  S.G.P.C. Akalis tried to play down the Sant Nirankari incident in Punjab. The  Congress-held Gurdwaras in Delhi promoted Bhindrawala as a hero of the Sant  Nirankari incident.  Meanwhile the Sant Nirankaris had  their court case moved from Punjab to neighboring state of Haryana because they  felt that in Punjab they would not get a fair hearing. 

The Haryana courts acquitted the Sant  Nirankaris on grounds of self-defence. Here the stone of Operation Blue Star was  kept by Congress. And this stone ultimately became the cause of assassination of  Indira Gandhi. Congress never wants to learn lessons from its unforgivable sins  against the nation.  The Congress Party of the Indian  government began to play a role in this clash when they started to support the  cause of the Nirankaris. For example, the Congress Party paid for many expenses  of the Nirankari Congregation. The Congress Party 's support for the Nirankaris  formation deepened the division between the Orthodox Sikhs and the Indian  government. This tension between the two parties eventually led Bhrindranwale to  seek refuge in the Golden Temple out of fear that he would be executed by the  Indian Army.

<b>Congress sowed the  seeds of Khalistan</b>
Prior to the Khalistani movement in  the 1980s, there is no example of Sikhs persecuting any heretical movement  within it ranks. Even the despicable Sikh sect, the Handalias, who caused so  much harm to the Khalsa in the 19th century were allowed to die a natural and  inevitable death. It is the Congress which sowed the seeds of Khalistan. 

The media in the Punjab took the part  of the Nirankaris on the pica of' secularism. So did the Congress party which,  on returning to power at the Centre, dismissed the Akali government in the  Punjab, where too fresh elections were held and Congress government  installed.

The same roles are being played by  the so called media and the Congress to create hurdles before the SAD (B) fight.  This is not going only in Punjab. Congress and Left create this situation every  where through various divide and ruld policy: Save Afzal move, highlighting of  fake encounter of terrorist a man of Don Daud, Freedom of Expression through MS  Uniersity of Vadodara and Indore. Kerala Govt. of left has decided to reward the  MF Hussain for making nude painting of Bharatmata and Hindu god  goddeses.

<b>Operation Blue Star  and Present Violence in Punjab </b>
The same situation is being created  by Congess in Punjab with the help of Dera Sacha Sauda. Sirsa border of Haryana  and Punjab is the capital of this sect and Haryana is ruled by Congress. After  its defeat in Punjab by wasting the fatwa of this sect, Congress and sect both  want to teach the lesson DAD (B) and BJP coilation government as the Congress of  Indira did in the past.

<b>Fatwa of Dera to  support Congress in the assembly election </b>
Now there is violent fight between  the two Sikh sects as per the poisonous divide and rule policy with sugar coat  of communal secularism. Sonia Gandhi in the name of secularism begged votes to  play the communal card by getting fatwa of a religious sect Dera Chief. 

Feb 10: Punjab Chief Minister  Amarinder Singh today said the Dera Sacha Sauda's decision to extend support to  the Congress will be a shot in the arm for the party during the February 13  polls.

Tensions had been brewing between the  ruling Akalis and Dera supporters ever since Dera supporters were told to vote  for the Congress in the recent Assembly polls. The Congress had done well in the  Malwa belt following the dictate

<b>Ad to show Dera  Chief as Guru Gobind Singh </b>
The violent tussle since May 13, 07,  began after newspaper advertisements allegedly showed Baba Gurmeet Singh Ram  Raheem attired like 10th Sikh Guru Gobind Singh and the Akalis protested the  advertisements that also showed the Dera head distributing "amrit".

<b>Efigy of Sonia was burnt </b>
In the back ground of present  violence, Akal Takht Jathedar calls Sikh conclave on May 17. This violence has  spread out of Punjab upto Jammu, Sriganganagar of Raj and Bhopal of MP. Communal  Congress and atheists communist should not be allowed to spread this violence  further. 

On April 8, the activists of Sikh  Students' Federation (SSF) burnt effigies of Sonia Gandhi and Congress today,  accused the government of shielding Sant Ram Rahim Singh, the owner of Dera  Sacha Sauda at Sirsa. The president of SSF, GS Grewal said that a few days ago,  Malwa Congress MLAs had appealed to All India Congress Committee (AICC) to bail  out Ram Rahim from the sex-scandal he is allegedly involved in

<b>What is PAW  (Political Affairs Wing of Dera Sacha Sauda)?  </b>
Members of Political Affairs Wing of  Dera Sacha Sauda are representatives of  Sadh Sangat for welfare of Sadh Sangat. 

<b>Edict splits Dera  followers </b>

<b>Political and  foreign wing of Dera SachaSauda </b>
I read a following comment of a  ‘premi’:
I am follower of Dera Sacha Sauda or  Sant Gurmeet Ram Rahim Ji. I want to request Sant Gurmeet Ram Rahim Ji to stop  playing with our sentiments. Dera Sacha Sauda has been commercialized and now we  are being insulted by society. We can't answer questions raised from society.  How can we tell them that our guru is a true guru when he has been making money  from his followers and now want to vote congress? We can't vote on the name of  GOD. Please don't be our guru of social world but only be our guru of spiritual  world. We can always decide ourselves whom to vote. Please keep your political  wing or foreign wing to yourself. We don't need them. Also keep your commercial  wing to yourself too. Hopefully someone will read this to you. Thanks

There is a book “Bande Tou Rab”,  where it is clearly mentioned that “Dera Sacha Sauda has nothing todo neither  with any political party nor in future will be related to any political  party……….” But Congress managed them scusscessfully for getting fatwa in its  favor from the Dera Sacha sauda.

<b>DM orders taking  over of Dera property in Himachal </b>
As reported on April 27, Kangra  district magistrate Bharat Khera has asked the revenue department to take over  the possession of 175 kanals of prime land in Chachian village of Palampur  subdivision of Kangra district as the state property and ‘vest the property in  the name of the state government as the owner in revenue records’. 

The land was allegedly the ‘benami’  property of Dera Sacha Sauda that was acquired by it in the names of some local  people. 

<b>Murder of  journalist </b>
On October 24, a gunman fired several  shots at Chaterpatti, a journalist based in Sirsa, a town in the northern state  of Haryana. Chaterpatti was taken to an area hospital but was later transferred  to the Apollo Hospital in New Delhi.

Police arrested three suspects,  including the alleged gunman and a leader of the Sirsa-based religious sect Dera  Sacha Sauda, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.

<b>Sacha Sauda: HC  comes down on CBI </b>
As report of April 17, The Bench observed that there was  no tangible material before it or genuine reason for the agency to seek more  time. The only inference, the court said, was that either the sincerity was  lacking or there were some extraneous consideration in dealing with the  matter.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->