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Gajinder says return to India on his terms: report
WSN Network

AMRITSAR: In a development that will interest the Sikh community, the Dal Khalsa founder Gajinder Singh has expressed a desire to return to India but onlly after setting a few terms that basically aim at preserving his dignity and safe life. Gajinder apparently made remarks in a telephonic interview to an Amritsar-based  reporter of Chandigarh-based The Tribune newspaper but it was not clear who initiated the call.

The report did not say to which city was the call made, and whether it was the radical leader who wanted to let his views be aired. The reporter made apparently no attempt to speak to any other leader of the Dal Khalsa for any confirmation, nor did he make clear how he could be sure of the identity of the person supposedly in Pakistan whom he has never met.

Gajinder Singh's name figured in the so-called "list of 20 most-wanted Indian terrorists" following an attack on Parliament in December 2001.

He has been in Pakistan ever since he hijacked an Indian Airlines plane in September 1981 to protest against the arrest of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.

He has spent 13 years in jails in Pakistan.

The Tribune said that Gajinder claimed that the then SGPC chief Gurcharan Singh Tohra had offered him Akali Dal ticket from Patiala’s Lok Sabha seat.

"Gajinder said he could come back to India if he was offered a respectable way...(He) said he had never used a weapon for the cause of the Sikh community. He claimed that even during hijacking none of the hijackers had used any weapon," The Tribune report said.

1 October 2008
 

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