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Mann completes Beant Singh statue by placing
Dilawar's placard, says next time it will be broken
WSN Network
 Jalandhar: If you celebrate a
gross violator of human rights and someone who let the so-called
'Dirty Harrys' decide their own law -- kill the innocents if you
can't catch the culprits -- then what do you expect the victims and
the community to do? Most certainly, it will not queue up to garland
the statues of such people.
Activists of Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) led by its president
Simranjit Singh Mann and former militant leader Wassan Singh
Zaffarwal on Monday registered a strong protest against installation
of a statue of former Chief Minister Beant Singh by hanging placards
bearing photos of Dilawar Singh — the human bomb who killed Beant
Singh — around the neck of statue at BMC Chowk, Jalandhar.
The SAD leaders and activists had gathered at Singh Sabha Gurdwara,
Model Town, where they held a meeting. Mann had been opposing the
installation of the statue of Beant Singh, arguing that he was
involved in the “butchering” of thousands of Sikh youths and
installing his statues was an insult to Sikhs. They started from the
Gurdwara giving an impression that they would stage a dharna at BMC
chowk. However, when they reached BMC chowk they came out with the
placards bearing photos of Dilawar Singh. These placards were hung
around the neck of the statue by Mann and others along with the
raising of slogans like “Dilawar Singh Zindabad”. Police reached the
spot and Mann, Zaffarwal and 19 of their supporters were arrested
and taken to police station Sadar and they were booked under section
107/151 of CrPC.
“A statue of Beant Singh would not be tolerated here, next time we
shall break it”, he said. Mann was produced before SDM (I) Bhupinder
Singh in the evening and where Mann and others refused to take bail.
The WSN had earlier repeatedly warned about the negative vibes
generated by installation of statues of such personalities as Beant
Singh. But not only had leaders of Congress like Rajinder Kaur
Bhattal and Shamsher Singh Dullo unveiled the statue but another
statue of Beant Singh has been installed at the Congress state
headquarters in Chandigarh. Statues of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv
Gandhi have also been installed there.
16 May, 2007
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