A response to a wishy-washy statement of P.S. Pasricha, chairman of the Hazoor Sahib Gurdwara Board published in the New York’s ethnic press last week
A witty saying by the famous English writer Thomas Fuller M.D. that, “A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich,” may well apply to P. S. Pasricha
Pasricha challenged to an Open Debate in Washington DC
Washington, D.C., Wednesday, July 09, 2008 - The corrupt and infamous ‘gentleman’, retired Indian Police officer P. S. Pasricha, the current Chairman of the Hazoor Sahib Gurudwara Board, (who cut short his junket to North America last month when he was publicly confronted, in a New York Gurdwara, about his involvement in the destruction of irreplaceable historical Sikh heritage structures in Nanded) has again, as is his wont, tried to fool the Sikh community with lies, imbedded in a wishy-washy New York-datelined written statement, justifying his unforgivable criminal actions, which statement some how got published in an ethnic New York Punjabi weekly, Apna Punjab, last week – issue of 2-8 July, 2008. (To read P.S. Pasricha’s vacillating statement in Punjabi click at: > http://www.newspunjab.com/images/ap5.jpg <)The shenanigans of P. S. Pasricha remind one of a witty saying by that great English writer, compiler and physician, Thomas Fuller M.D., (1654-1734) in Gnomologia which reads, “A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich.”
Some readers may recall that India’s leading news magazine, TEHELKA, highlighted and exposed, the corruptions of the ‘gentleman’ named P. S. Pasricha, who used his Police ‘uniform’ to become a billionaire (Rs.) real estate tycoon, with help of the Mumbai criminal ‘under-world’, while he was serving as the Maharashtra Police Chief. To read the Tehelka Cover page story about Pasricha, headlined, “Top Cop Caught,” please click at:> http://www.tehelka.com/story_main29.asp?filename=Ne210407Top_cop_CS.asp <)
While still in police uniform Pasricha was ‘gifted’ the Chairmanship of the Hazoor Sahib Gurdwara Board by Maharashtra’s all-powerful Neo-Nazi Shiv Sena-dominated ruling elite as he displayed his ‘anti-Sikh’ ruthlessness and loyalty to the Hindutva rulers, in January 2007, when he ordered police firing on Sikhs who were protesting the bulldozing of the historic Ramgharia Bunga, built during the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, inside Hazoor Sahib gurdwara in Nanded. In October 2007 he used the police again to demolish the historic Baradari, also built during Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s time, as he also once again used police ‘muscle’ when Mata Bhagoji’s historic bunga came up for demolition.
The above wanton destruction of historical structures, with help of trigger-happy armed Maharashtra police, inside the Hazoor Sahib gurdwara, under Pasricha’s supervision, were reported in a May 5, 2008, article, headlined, “Heritage Mauled - Have You The Eyes For It?” in OUTLOOK magazine. The OUTLOOK reported, and we quote verbatim, that, “In the dead of the night, sometime in October last year, (2007) police surrounded the historic baradari at Hazoor Sahib in Nanded, Maharashtra, built during Maharaja Ranjit Singh's reign. Under the watchful eye of the police, the once-magnificent structure was bulldozed to the ground… What happened at Nanded in October and before that in January 2007, when another historic structure in the complex, the Ramgarhia Bunga, was similarly demolished, leading to rioting by local Sikhs and police firing.” End Quote!
Pasricha again used the police ‘muscle’ when he ordered the demolition of about fifty Sikh-owned shops and houses in Nanded which were in the way of his projects. He used the same thuggish ‘strong-arm’ procedure when he ordered the bull-dozing of the recently-built NRI Niwas built with generous donations from the U.K. sangat by the Birmingham UK-based Guru Nanak N. Sewak Jatha.
Ever since the British Colonials left South Asia in haste, in August 1947, after handing over the instruments of state power to the Brahmins under Pundit Jawahar Lal Nehru, the Indian ruling elite – an evil nexus of the Brahmin and the Bania - has been feverishly trying to implement a fascist agenda of Cultural Genocide which claims that the world’s 26 million monotheistic and egalitarian Sikhs – who believe in one supreme being and have a distinct religious identity – are a branch of polytheistic caste-ridden Brahminism/ Hinduism whose followers believe in, and pray to, hundreds of millions of gods. No wonder Pasricha endeared himself to the Shiv Sena-dominated Maharashtra Hindu ruling elite, and it’s Hindutva agenda, by his thuggish approach to local Sikhs and historical Sikh structures in Nanded.
By ruthlessly destroying historical structures inside Takht Hazoor Sahib, under cover of a clean up campaign, P. S. Pasricha, who wears a Sikh turban, strengthened his credentials in the eyes of the fascist Shiv Sena-dominated ruling nexus. No wonder he was gifted the ‘khushi’ job of Chairman Hazoor Sahib Gurdwara Board, from which position he would be able to ‘overseer’ the development budget for Nanded, (reported to be Rs. 1, 500 crores) sanctioned by the Manmohan Singh government ‘to be spent for the cultural genocide of the Sikhs’, before the celebrations of the 300th anniversary of Guru Granth sahib Gurgaddi Divas when millions of Sikh pilgrims are expected to visit Takht Hazur Sahib in Nanded Maharashtra, in October 2008. Indian rulers, in cahoots with Maharashtras’s Neo-Nazi Shiv Sena-dominated ruling elite, and with help from a ‘fifth column’ among the Sikhs, are hoping to ‘clean up’ in and around Takht Hazur Sahib in Nanded, Maharashtra) by implementing their agenda, of cultural genocide, during the celebrations of the 300th anniversary of Guru Granth sahib Gurgaddi Divas when millions of Sikh pilgrims are expected to visit Takht Hazur Sahib in Nanded Maharashtra. Readers are urged to also read, for background, our column, dated June 18, 2008, as well as report published on the Punjab Heritage website by clicking at the following links:> /home/khalistancalling/2008/june18.aspx < and > http://www.punjabheritage.org/material-heritage/administrators-destroying-heritage-structures-nri.html <
Readers ought to note that a ‘proposal’ was prepared by New Delhi-based Conservation Experts, CRCI in 2006, headlined, “Sri Hazur Sahib, Nanded, Masharashtra; Concern for the conservation of the heritage – Conservation of historical buildings and the landscape in Nanded, Maharashtra,” after an on site inspection. The experts recommended a plan that, important aspects of the cultural landscape (cultural and natural) needed to be preserved. The financial requirements for the conservation of the four identified structures (Baradari, Ram Gharia Bunga, the two historic step wells) was projected at Rs. two crores. The conservation work on the Ram Gharia Bunga would not be more than fifty Lacs. No wonder P. S. Pasricha, the corrupt and greedy Chairman of the Hazoor Sahib Gurudwara Board, who has an eye on hundreds of crores of government funds and public donations, (and valuable real estate as well) was not impressed with the paltry two crores figure submitted by the Conservation experts and he rejected the recommendations.
In light of the above serious accusations we would like to give Mr. P. S. Pasricha, and his apologists in New York if any, an opportunity to publicly correct our impression that he is a corrupt and greedy individual who cares NOT for Sikhi and is up to no good as Chairman of the Hazur Sahib Gurdwara Board and that he is a party to the cultural genocide of Sikhs under way in India.
We therefore, invite P. S. Pasricha to join us and some reputed Conservation experts, in an open public debate in the National Press Building in Washington D.C. on a day and time of his choosing, in the coming weeks, as there is very little time left before the celebrations of the 300th anniversary of Guru Granth sahib Gurgaddi Divas starts, in October 2008, when millions of Sikh pilgrims are expected to visit Takht Hazur Sahib in Nanded Maharashtra. There the Sikh pilgrims unfortunately, will be exposed to a number of Brahmanical practices (like ‘havan’ – fire worship – Aarti, and Tilak etc.,) currently in vogue in the Nanded Gurdwara Sahib having crept in over the years.