“The Dera-Sikh standoff might be heading towards a resolution. Arya Samaj Activist Swami Agnivesh and other religious leaders met Dera Chief … on Tuesday. “
When this news came at first every well wisher of Punjab took it as a ray of hope that, now it would not go long, Situation will be soon under control and attempts to make Punjab a disturbed region will end. But soon after the news of apology came, Sect spokesman denied any such decision from Sect. Everything was back to square one. What was the formula to sort out the stand off was not revealed by Arya Smaaj’s Swami Agnivesh. But we must appericiate the efforts made by Arya Smaaj at this tough time of Punjab on Sect-Sikhs dispute and earlier back in history, one of the reference is given below:
During the Lahore Arya Samaj anniversary celebrations in 1866, Lala Datt Arora in a speech sharply criticised Sikhism. Pertinently, he said that so what if Swami Daynand called Guru Nanak Dev Ji a fraud ! ”Swamiji had the sum of the Vedas in his hands, he touted. He continued that “Guru Gobind Singh was not even a hundredth part like our Maharishsi Sawami Dayanand Saraswati and it is difficult to say whether the Sikhs have any religion or not, but surely they have no knowledge of any kind.”
Other Arya speakers, speciafically Pandit Lekh Ram and Lala Murli Dhar rose to second Lala Guru Datt’s comments and addedctheir own words of sarcasm to the criticism of Sikh religion.
-Ref. “The Sikhs in History,” by Sangat Singh, 1995.
Although at this time it is not relavent that we digg out something like this from history, but the point here is to think that how much serious those people could be to solve the dispute. Because Akaal Takhat Sahib clearly demanded an apology from that cult leader and a ’Hukumnama’ is been issued in this regard. The ‘Hukumnama’ is not negotiable. But Swami Agnivesh conveyed clearly that they are trying to bring both sides to a common centre point. Is it negotiation? Or serious attempt to solve a dispute. it may look like criticising the good intentions of somebody trying to help but the only intention to raise this point is to analyse properly and forcast the near and long term results.Swami Dyanand of Arya Smaaj is declared as one of the traitors of Sikh community among all others at number 42 in the list. watch the whole list at http://akalidalamritsar.com/punjab/PDF/Sikh_Traitors.pdf
But as the time is changed rest is history abd also its a page from a political party’s website, it might be the case that they are seriously tryin to help, but who knows? Its time to keep our fingers crossed and access the situation carefully before taking any action.
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