Washington: The newly-formed American Sikh Congressional Caucus, which is backed by groups and individuals who in the past have openly supported the Khalistan movement, has got a shot in the arm with Ami Bera, the only Indian-American Congressman, joining the group.
Bera said he decided to join the Sikh Congressional Caucus to work on "civil rights" issues, ignoring the concerns of several Indian-American groups and also that of the Indian Embassy on the pro-Khalistan links of individuals supporting the Caucus.
"The memory of the tragedy at Oak Creek is still fresh, and in my own community of Elk Grove, two Sikh men were murdered in 2011 in a probable hate crime. Violence and discrimination against the Sikh American community is a real and important civil rights issue in the US," Bera told reporters.
"That's why I co-sponsored strong anti-hate crimes legislation earlier this year, and that's why I joined the American Sikh Congressional Caucus, to work on civil rights issues here in America," Bera said....
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12:40 PM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission on Wednesday "strongly" recommended to the government to allow close relatives of Khalistani terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar, who is on the death row, to meet him. Bhullar, whose plea for commutation of death sentence to life imprisonment for his involvement in the 1993 bomb blast outside Youth Congress office in New Delhi was rejected by the Supreme Court, is presently under treatment...
06:22 PM, Apr 17, 2013
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected Khalistani terrorist Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar's plea to commute his death sentence to life. ...
11:52 PM, Apr 12, 2013
London: The trial of two Sikh men and a woman accused of attacking 1984 Operation Blue Star hero Lt Gen (retd) KS Brar in London has been adjourned till May 20 as the judge was busy with another case. Mandeep Singh Sandhu, 34, Dilbagh Singh, 36, and Harjit Kaur, 38, will remain in custody until the next court appearance. They have pleaded not guilty to the charge of "unlawful wounding...
08:18 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Chandigarh: 'Sadda Haq (Our right), a Punjabi film based on real life events during the Khalistan movement, was tonight banned by the Punjab Government on the eve of its release across theatres in the state tomorrow. According to an official spokesman here, the step to ban the film till further orders has been taken to "maintain communal harmony" in the state. The film, according to actor-producer Kuljinder Sidhu, is based...
11:24 AM, Apr 05, 2013
Intelligence inputs indicate that the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Indian Mujahideen are scrounging for a window to carry out terrorist attacks in India while there are no such hints from the Taliban, the government said on Tuesday. Minister of State for Home RPN Singh told the Lok Sabha that the Babbar Khalsa International and the Khalistan Tiger Force too fell in the category of groups planning to stage attacks in India....
06:46 PM, Dec 11, 2012
London: British Police have arrested two more persons, including a woman, in connection with the assassination attempt in London on Lt Gen (retd) KS Brar, the hero of the 1984 Operation Blue Star. Brar, 78, on a private visit, was returning to his hotel with his wife when he was attacked in central London by four men on September 30 and suffered a wound on his neck and cheek. A...
11:49 AM, Nov 23, 2012
Newspapers have carried extensive coverage of the news of the honouring of the killers of Congress MP Lalit Makhen and General AS Vaidya by the ...
11:59 AM, Oct 12, 2012
In a controversial move the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) on Wednesday honoured the killers of former Army Chief General AS Vaidya in the Golden Temple, calling the Khalistani terrorists Sikh martyrs. ...
09:52 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Amritsar: In a controversial move the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) on Wednesday honoured the killers of former Army Chief General AS Vaidya in the Golden Temple, calling the Khalistani terrorists Sikh martyrs. Even as a debate is raging over the raising of a Blue Star memorial in Amritsar and the attack on Operation Blue Star commander Lieutenant General (retired) KS Brar in London, the commemorative ceremony held inside the...
03:35 PM, Oct 10, 2012
Chandigarh: Not learning from a dark past, on the anniversary of Operation Blue Star, a series of arrests has once again raised fears of militancy in the state. There were also reports of increasing number of youngsters from the state undergoing training in Pakistan. Provocative statements from the SAD-dominated SGPC focus only on the militant leaders, sidelining the loss of innocent lives. Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal said, "The...
08:35 AM, Jun 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is expected to hear a petition challenging the death penalty given to militant Devender Pal Singh Bhullar. His mercy plea was rejected last year after he was given death penalty in a 1993 car bombing case. The Khalistani militant had been sentenced to death for triggering the 1993 Delhi car bomb attack that killed 12 people. He had filed a mercy petition before President Pratibha...
07:41 AM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear death row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar's plea to convert his sentence into a life term. The Khalistani militant who had been sentenced to death for triggering the 1993 Delhi car bomb attack that killed 12 people, had filed a mercy petition before the President in January. President Pratibha Patil had rejected the mercy petition in May 2011. Bhullar's counsel had...
08:46 AM, Nov 09, 2011
New Delhi: The Khalistan Tiger Force on Monday claimed responsibility for the Ambala RDX Haul, saying that the explosive were sent to terminate Congress leader Sajjan Kumar. Sajjan Kumar is a key accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Earlier on Monday, the Khalistan Tiger Force has issued a letter to the media saying that the RDX haul was the group's doing. The letter also claims that the KTF does not...
12:46 PM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: The foiled terror plot in Ambala which was meant to target Delhi shows once again how the Lashkar-e-Toiba is trying to revive the Sikh militancy in Punjab by forging a nexus with terrorist groups like the Babbar Khalsa. October 31 will mark 25 years of the assassination of former prime minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards and today the Khalistan movement may have died down in India,...
03:58 PM, Oct 13, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear Devendar Pal Singh Bhullar's amended plea for mercy on Wednesday. The Khalistani militant was sentenced to death for masterminding the 1993 Delhi car bomb attack that killed 12 people. His counsel has allowed to argue that the death penalty should only be handed out by a constitution bench and not if there is a split verdict. The apex court had earlier dismissed Bhullar's...
07:42 AM, Sep 28, 2011
New Delhi: Pleading that a mentally imbalanced person should not be executed, the wife of terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar has urged the Supreme Court to quash his death penalty and commute it to life term. In a fresh writ petition filed by senior counsel K T S Tulsi, the convict's wife Navaneet Kaur submitted that carrying out the death penalty would amount to 'cruelty' and would be 'inhuman' and...
10:27 AM, Jun 26, 2011
Patiala: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday said that the recent book published by Congress party vindicated Akali Dal's stand that leaders of the ruling party at the Centre was responsible for the 1980s crisis in the state. He, however, refused to comment on the allegation that militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwala was planted by former President Gyani Zail Singh and Congress general secretary Sanjay Gandhi as mentioned in...
05:53 PM, Jun 12, 2011
Chandigarh: All India Anti-Terrorist Front Chairman MS Bitta on Monday said political parties were indulging in votebank politics over rejection of mercy plea of death row convict and Khalistan militant Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar even as SGPC decided to file a review petition against capital punishment for Bhullar. "It is unfortunate that parties are indulging in votebank politics over such a sensitive issue. It is time that people of this...
06:41 PM, May 30, 2011
New Delhi: Former Punjab DGP KPS Gill has hit out at attempts to politicise the mercy plea of Khalistani terrorist Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar ahead of elections in the Punjab. Gill said, "There should be no clemency for Bhullar and that politics is being played over it as elections are due in Punjab." Gill also debunked the Akali Dal's claim that saving Bhullar from the death row would remove acrimony ...
01:38 PM, May 30, 2011
