Chandigarh: Former Supreme Court judge Kuldip Singh has resigned as president of the World Sikh Council, constituted about four years ago under the aegis of Sikhism’s highest religious and temporal seat, the Akal Takht. The World Sikh Council (WSC) has been continually mired in controversy with multiple claimants to the body’s custodianship.
Justice Kuldip Singh’s decision to resign after three years as the WSC president follows the direct intervention of the supreme Sikh clergy.
The resignation is prompted by an opposition group’s move to elect the US-based Didar Singh Bains as the WSC president. (Asian Aige, June 19, 2001).
Instead of fighting the common enemy – the Brahminical Social Order out to destroy the Sikh identity – the Jat Sikhs are fighting between themselves. Punjab may be India’s richest state, and the Jat Sikhs may be a prosperous lot. So what? They are a totally enslaved lot. This is because the Jat Sikh leadership has antagonized the more revolutionary Dalit Sikhs and in their craze for power and wealth, they have become closer to BSO. Our Debate on the “Slow death of Sikhism” has made this point abundantly clear – EDITOR.
