Attack on Dhadrianwale echoes at Bluestar event

CHANDIGARH: Attack on Ranjit Singh Dhadrianwale and role of Damdami Taksal chief Harnam Singh Dhumma in the entire episode echoed here at the observance of the 32nd anniversary of the Army attack on the Golden Temple on June 6, 1984. The event organized at Sri Guru Granth Sahib Bhawan, Sector 28-A, Chandigarh, on Friday also saw Sikh scholars taking the Guru Granth Sahib and Dasam Granth debate further.
The disagreement over the two scriptures had become the bone of contention leading to such extreme reactions, some scholars observed."There are ways of settling this debate too. There are set norms, now accepted world over to decide the authenticity of a text. Right from authenticating a manuscript, establishing the author and dating of the text. There are four manuscripts of Dasam Granth available. Still we can sit and talk everything out," said historian Gurdarshan Singh Dhillon.
United Sikh president Gurpreet Singh suggested that the community should have a place like Jews' Wailing Wall, where they would ensure that they remembered their history.
They reiterated their request to the Centre for a truth/fact finding commission to "reveal the true reasons for the attack". The meeting appreciated the efforts of Lok Raj Sangathan for highlighting the issue of "state terrorism". The efforts of the Amnesty International and Lord Indrajit Singh of Wimbledon in addressing the issue of gross human rights violations were also lauded.
Speakers also took exception to President Pranab Mukherjee saying in the second edition of his three-part memoir, The Turbulent Years: 1980-1996, that Sikhs were killed by some "miscreants", who took advantage of the fact that the "government was just not ready for an eventuality such as Mrs Gandhi's assassination and the riots that followed".
Among the Sikh intellectual present at the conference were historian Gurdarshan Singh Dhillon; Gurtej Singh, IAS; Shiromani Khalsa Panchayat convener Rajinder Singh Khalsa; Gurpreet Singh of Kendri Sri Guru Singh Sabha; Institute of Sikh Studies' Kartar Singh Goshti; Giani Kewal Singh; Davinderpal Singh and S P Singh of Panjab Digital Liberary; Amar Singh Chahal; Prof Harpal Singh; and Gurpartap Singh.