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...ordered an independent inquiry into the massacres that followed his mother's death, and lifted a ban on the All-India Sikh Students' Federation, the most radical Sikh group. To little avail: his efforts have been stymied by factional wrangling among moderates and extremists for control of the Akali Dal, the main Sikh political party...
Joginder Singh also named Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, 49, the Akali Dal's president and leader of the moderate faction within the party, to the committee. Longowal, a forceful advocate of struggle against what he calls an "unjust government" in New Delhi, does not subscribe to the idea of separate nationhood. After last week's bomb attacks, he resigned...
...central shrine of the 15 million Sikhs, India's Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi announced the release of eight prominent Sikh leaders taken into custody at the time of the raid, in which 600 were killed on both sides. Those freed included Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, president of the Akali Dal, the Sikh political party. Longowal is a moderate who opposes secession of Punjab from India. Talks between representatives of the Akali Dal and Gandhi's government appear likely; the issue, said Longowal, is "the very future of the Sikhs and Sikhism in India...
...exceptions are very, very few, and they have been misguided. The Sikhs have been a major part of India's evolvement. They have been part of India's independence struggle, and they are part of India's history. They are very much Indian. We would like the Akali Dal (the main Sikh political party) to be categorical and say it will operate within our constitution and find a way of disassociating itself from extremists...
Bhindranwale, by advocating the violent elimination of innocent Hindu civilians and of police and government officials, both Hindu and Sikh, who tried to maintain order, forged together a group of Sikh extremists composed largely of the unemployed, youths and criminals. He grasped initiative away from the collaborating Akali Dal, a political party of right-wing Sikhs. Wanted for arrest due to his directives to kill given Hindu leaders and Sikh moderates. Bhindranwale sought protection in the Golden Temple. There, he sent out directives to kill more individuals, organized military training exercises preparing the extremists for war, and converted the sacred...