Chandigarh Sikh organization Kendri Sri Guru Singh Sabha (KSGSS) on Tuesday condemned the attack on a Gurdwara at Toronto, Canada and asked the Sikhs living abroad to be vigilant against the Hindutva designs aimed at provoking and targeting them to consolidate the ultra-nationalist forces against the Sikhs and other minorities. 

The statement which was issued here by the KSGSS General Secretary Khushhal Singh and also signed by Prof. Sham Singh (President), Senior journalists Jaspal Singh Sidhu, Gurpreet Singh (Global Sikh Council), Surinder Singh Kishnpura and Rajwinder Singh Rahi, reads, “As per the usual Hindutva practice, yesterday’s protest against the Indian consulate staffers camping at the Toronto Hindu Sabha temple was used as a pretext to mobilize ultra-nationalist elements against the Sikhs and to attack their religious place”. 

“It seems that Hindutva elements were well prepared in advance and waiting for the opportunity to attack and spill out their venomous/aggressive propaganda”, they said.

The Sikh leaders also condemned a section of media for its biased presentation and one-sided coverage of the Toronto incidents and ignoring the miscreants who resorted to provocative and fascist slogans and actions against the Sikhs in Canada -a country committed to provide civil and human rights equal to its every citizens.

“The Hindutva politics already being practiced in Canada and other Western countries, has only one agenda — that is to polarize residents of Indian origin there and to create a fake narrative that projects the Sikhs as ‘threat’ to India. The Hindutva politics of targeting and demonizing the Sikhs began in the 1980s, has got rather strengthened in past 40 years in India and abroad. That is why perpetrators of the Sikh massacre in November 1984 have enjoyed impunity from the law and went scot free while thousands of innocent victims denied justice till today”, said the Sikh leaders.

They added, “We therefore appeal to the Sikhs abroad, that they should avoid falling into a ‘Hindutva trap’ and should act democratically taking inspiration and direction on from Guru Granth Sahib and Gurus”.