Sunday, December 6, 2009

Who says we are wrong?

On the second day of violent brawl, Ludhiana witnessed clashes between the extremist groups and the police authorities of the largest city of Punjab. The extremist groups including Damdami Taksaal and Dal Khalsa got out onto the roads with bare swords protesting against the two-day spiritual event of Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan. With their hands holding the nude swords high in the air and their voices full of agitation, the group began their protest from Samrala Chowk, about 4 km from the venue of the spiritual discourses by the founder and head of DJJS, Ashutosh Maharaj ji. Within two hours, the agitators reached the one-kilometer vicinity.

Protest against the discourse, even before the discourse: One entire day of violent protest, marked by the death of one and grave injuries of half-a-dozen more and the reason – Ashutosh Maharaj ji disrespects the Sikh Gurus and misinterprets Shri Guru Granth Sahib. Here, my dear readers, I have once valid question to make – how did the protesting organizations jumped onto this conclusion, without even attending the program? The protest began far outside the actual venue of the event and at a time quite prior to the commencement of discourses, the protesters had no clue of what, Ashutosh ji was going to speak on the stage... then what on this earth made the protesting organizations presume that the content of his discourse was going to be a pain to their sentiments towards the religion, the Guru Sahibans and their holy scripture?