Don't create Dalit-Sikh Rift
Balwant Singh Bohoru, B-257, Ranjit Avenue, amritsar - 143 001
This refers to your Editorial (DV July 1, 2004): "A silent social, cultural
revolution sweeps Punjab — Ravi Dass saints gain millions of followers".
You have given the true picture of the Dera Sachkhand Ballan in the Jalandhar
dt. of Punjab. I was associated with this Dera which began as a tiny shrine
of Sant Sarwan Dass, keeping in view of their social and political interest
of the family of Master Gurbanta Singh, a Congress Dalit leader who was a Minister
in the Punjab Govt. I was posted at Jalandhar (West) as a Block Development
Officer from 1967-1970 and again from 1973-1975 while his son, Chaudhry Jagjit
Singh was the chairman of the Block Samiti. Now he and his brother, Chaudhry
Santokh Singh, both are ministers in the Punjab Govt. The Ballan shrine came
under my jurisdiction. I was devoted more towards Dalits than their Dalit officers.
Therefore the family got me transferred.
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