Word: harchand
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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Gandhi has declared that she is ready and willing to negotiate with the dissidents. But the two most powerful Sikh leaders, both hiding out within the Golden Temple, scoff at such claims. While deploring the recent terrorism, Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, 51, the moderate president of the Akali, remains convinced that the government has been increasing tension rather than soothing it. "If anyone is to blame for the terrorists' presence," he told TIME, "it is the central government." His more fanatical colleague, Militant Fundamentalist Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, 36, voices a common suspicion that Gandhi is exploiting the friction...
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