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Mann denounces Nuclear Deal
WSN Network
 CHANDIGARH:
Among the very few leaders who make their voices heard on
international developments, the president of the Shiromani Akali Dal
(Amritsar),
Simranjit Singh Mann has categorically debunked the nuclear deal
between India and the United States. He said that the document was
a flawed one and it was not in the interest of Punjab as he feared
that a nuclear conflagration would lead to wide-scale destruction in
Punjab.
Simranjit Singh
Mann, who has written extensively to many of the nuclear supplies
group countries in the recent past, has said that "Sikhs were for a
nuclear weapon-free South Asia and supported peace."
Upping the ante
on the issue, Mr. Mann said that like most issues, the Indian state
had not consulted the Sikhs as a nation and therefore it was futile
for anyone to think that Sikhs would blindly render support. The
Sikhs are an independent, separate and sui generis sovereign,
pluralistic and democratic nationality. It is churlish, nay,
perverted and woolly headed to plead that we should support Manmohan
Singh because he was a Sikh.
According to our
party the 123 Agreement is flawed as India in keeping within the
provisions of its own Constitution, Article 51, has not signed the
N.P.T., C.T.B.T. and the forthcoming F.M.C.T. India has kept its
military nuclear reactors outside the inspection and scrutiny of
IAEA and National Security Adviser Mr. Narayanan has said mindless
of the Hyde Act, India can make more nuclear blasts. India has
reserved its rights before the IAEA to stockpile nuclear fuel
reserves in the likelihood of sanctions against it. As such it has
cocked a snook at these world bodies and America. This defies reason
and logic.
The unstoppable
leader further said that "our party is not clear how much nuclear
civil energy the Sikhs would receive if the 123 Agreement goes
through. What would happen to the nuclear waste? As it is Panjab has
no controls for its conventional waste and its rivers are running
foul, leading to the worst contagious fatal diseases."
Mr. Mann went on
to applaud the role of Australian Prime Minister Mr. Kevin Rudd and
his Foreign Minister Mr. Stephen Smith, for refusing to provide fuel
to India in pursuance of the 123 Agreement.
In an earlier
missive, the former parliamentarian had said, "We want détente in
Asia and not gun-boat exercises in the Gulf of Bengal with America,
Japan, Singapore and Australia. Our party appreciates Japan keeping
itself within its pacifist constitution in the light of its
experience with Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. America's
military umbrella for Japan will suffice as it has since 1945.
Australians should also keep themselves away from the Bay of Bengal
and the Arabian Sea. North of the Yamuna and the Ganga"
We want peace,
no more and no less, said the leader who may not have much clout in
Punjab, but who never fails to highlight the interests of the Sikhs,
anywhere in the globe. Not known to mincing words, he declared, "A
stronger nuclear Hindutva Indian nation would mean the withdrawl of
India's
military from the Chinese and Pakistan borders and its use
internally to crush minority dissent and genocide of the Sikh
peoples. Our interests are different from
India's
national interests"
16
July, 2008
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