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Bazigar Banjara Association, Bay Area California celebrated 445th Birth Anniversary of Goaar Nayak Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara at Sneha Restaurant, Sunnyvale,California, USA. Raj Bhanot, Pankaj Ansal, Tara Singh Sagar, Balbir Singh M.A., Sucha Ram Bharta, Saini Sahib, Mejor Singh Bains, Ajmer Singh, Om Parkash Kamal, Chanan Ram Dharamsot, Des Raj Dharamsot, Jeet Ram Duladdi, Prem Lalka, Ritesh Dharamsot, Binder Dharamsot, Mandeep Dharamsotand others paid tribute to Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara. Prominent Punjabi Singer Sukhdev Sahil present Punjabi Poetry. Manjeet Singh played tabla with Sahil Sahib. Dalit Intellectual Makhan Lohar present his thoughts about the Dalits of India. Asha Sharma conduct the stage in this programme.
Pavan Sukhdev - GGKP Advisory Committee Member; Founder and CEO of GIST Advisory and UNEP Goodwill Ambassador. The Second Annual Conference of the GGKP was held April 4-5 in Paris, France.
me (left) with Mr Maninderjit Singh Bitta; Chairman AIATF in a rally on the eve of Martyrdom of Martyrs Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev & Rajguru who were hanged by British Government on 23rd March 1931, in Chandigarh, India
Bazigar Banjara Association, Bay Area California celebrated 445th Birth Anniversary of Goaar Nayak Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara at Sneha Restaurant, Sunnyvale,California, USA. Raj Bhanot, Pankaj Ansal, Tara Singh Sagar, Balbir Singh M.A., Sucha Ram Bharta, Saini Sahib, Mejor Singh Bains, Ajmer Singh, Om Parkash Kamal, Chanan Ram Dharamsot, Des Raj Dharamsot, Jeet Ram Duladdi, Prem Lalka, Ritesh Dharamsot, Binder Dharamsot, Mandeep Dharamsotand others paid tribute to Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara. Prominent Punjabi Singer Sukhdev Sahil present Punjabi Poetry. Manjeet Singh played tabla with Sahil Sahib. Dalit Intellectual Makhan Lohar present his thoughts about the Dalits of India. Asha Sharma conduct the stage in this programme.
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Pr 23-31 March : Shahadat Saptah -Assert The Legacy Of Sukhdev,Rajguru,Bhagat Singh .
H Mudinst Sell-Out Of India's Sovereignity To US Imperialism! Against Communal Threat To People's Unity! .
Against SEZs and State Terror! For Peoples' Right To Land, Livelihood and Dignity! .
"We don't wish to suffer by Inviting a black evil to replace the white evil. Indian workers must come forward-overthrowing imperialists as well as their Indian agents who wish to perpetuate the same economic system rooted In exploitation.."-Bhagat Singh, Draft Revolutionary Programme, 1931~ March 23, 1931 marked the hanging of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, and his comrades Sukhdev and Rajguru, by .
If the colonial British. What is Bhagat Singh's message for us today, after 77 years he was martyred? What must today's t patriots and communists learn from him? He was not one to equate independence with a dream future full of rivers of milk .
and lakes of honey. Nor was he one to romanticise the past and promise a restoration of 'Ram rajya'. On the contrary he was the one who had warned the country that mere replacement of the British rulers by our own 'brown sahibs' would hardly make any difference. He was the one who told us that in order to challenge imperialism we must demolish the .
domestic basis of foreign rule -feudal forces and capitalist collaborators, the desi props of colonial raj and imperialist domination. He was the one to warn against the disastrous potential of communal politics and call for complete elimination .
of the sordid historical reality of social oppression and untouchability. .
Bhagat Singh's Legacy All sections of India's ruling class compete to claim Bhagat Singh as their own. The pro-US UPA Government of .
Manmohan Singh pays a lavish and ritualised homage to Bhagat Singh, while the RSS-BJP has always tried to claim Bhagat Singh as a Hindutva hero. Why this urgent need to co-opt Bhagat Singh, to appropriate and distort Bhagat Singh's legacy? The fact is that Bhagat Singh is still the most enduring symbol of youth's burning aspiration for freedom and social change. Those who are selling out India's freedom to imperialists, who need to define 'patriotism' as war-mongering and communalism rather than as anti-imperialism, are desperate to tame and domesticate Bhagat .
Singh's legacy in order to smother that fire of radicalism within youth. From British Raj to Bush Raj As we look around us today, we see hundreds of Jallianwala Baghs being repeated by a repressive state machinery all over the country -in Jagatsingpur (POSCO), Kalingnagar, Singur, Nandigram, Gurgaon, Khamrnam and elsewhere. We are witnessing the largest land grab in the history of indepenaent India, as governments of all hues act as agents of corporate houses and promote "Special Economic Zones" in the name of "development". The deep communal wounds left by the British on our polity continue to bleed periodically. We are seeing thousands of people being booked under drac<r nian laws like Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act (CSPSA) and Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), and Prevention of Terrorist Act (POTA). We see hunger and starvation reaching the same levels that they did under the British. .
We see farmers' traditional right over seeds usurped by the Monsantos as they are driven to suicide by debt and despera-tion. As the "brown sahibs" in the form of the ruling parties and their corporate masters carry on the legacy of the white sahibs, Bhagat Singh's insight stands visible in front of our eyes, and his revolutionary legacy ac-.
quires new meaning and relevance. .
OfAnti-Imperialist Nationalism, Not Communalism As the RSS-BJP pay obeisance to their ideologue 'Guru' Golwalkar, they also attempt to co-opt Bhagat Singh for their communal fascist plank. Can Golwalkar ever be reconciled with Bhagat Singh? When Bhagat Singh and his comrades were sacrificing their lives to resist British imperialism, Golwalkar was declaring that martyrs were 'selfish', and that the .
'anti-Britishism' ofthe freedom fighters was 'reactionary', which had 'disastrous' effects for the country. The India of Bhagat .
Singh's dream was an India free from the 'exploitation of man by man'. Bhagat Singh was himself an atheist; disturbed by the frenzy fanned up by communal elements, he called for a complete separation of religion from politics, and declared that only a secular society could be the basis for a modern and free India. The India of Gotwalkar's dream, on the other istians were "foreign races" who "must lose their separate existence to '!'erge.
hand, was one in which the Muslims and Chr.
In the Hindu race, or may stay in the country, wholly subordinated to tl7e Hindu Nation, claiming nothing, deservmg no prWileges, far less any preferential treatment not even citizen's rights." (Golwalkat; We or Our Nationhood Defined, 1938, .
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On 31 March 1997 twice JNUSU President Chandrashekhar was shot dead by mafia RJD MP Shahabuddin at JP Chowk. Chandu, ~ho , ~fter his glorious tenures in JNU,had returned to his hometown Siwan as a ~PI(.~L) wholetimer, .
was campaigning for a Bihar Bandh against the massacre of Dalits during Holi by the Ranveer Sena. H1s k1llmg sparked off a massive student movement where students faced lathis on Delhi's streets for a whole month. Remembering Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar cannot be reduced to hollow ritual; it must be an occasion to redefine the contours of our politics, in a way that brings to the fore those "revolutionary annies in the fields and ~he factories -peasants and workers" that Bhagat Singh spoke about. It is an occasion to commit ourselves to ~trengthe.mng .
all those struggles for social transformation and anti-imperialist resistance. To carry forward the undy.ng spirit of Bhagat Singh to Chandrashekhar, AISA observes 23 -31 March as Shahadat Saptah with public meeting, drama .
ll and film screen\ng documenting the challenges of our times. .
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The Legand : :Bhagat Singh Against Administration's Indulgence To The Senal Violence Mongn of Saluting the legacy of the revolutionary martyrs. ABVP And To Ensure Thel~Punishment March 23 (Tonight), 9.00 pm, KC OAT 24 March (Monday), SL lawns, 10.30 am ~-----ad/-Sucheta De, Gen.Secy., AISA, JNU sd/-Syed Md. Raghib, Jt. Secy, AISA, JNU .
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The CBWTF, a neighbour to Sukhdev Vihar, as seen from the balcony of a flat, is at a distance of less than 30 m.
Bazigar Banjara Association, Bay Area California celebrated 445th Birth Anniversary of Goaar Nayak Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara at Sneha Restaurant, Sunnyvale,California, USA. Raj Bhanot, Pankaj Ansal, Tara Singh Sagar, Balbir Singh M.A., Sucha Ram Bharta, Saini Sahib, Mejor Singh Bains, Ajmer Singh, Om Parkash Kamal, Chanan Ram Dharamsot, Des Raj Dharamsot, Jeet Ram Duladdi, Prem Lalka, Ritesh Dharamsot, Binder Dharamsot, Mandeep Dharamsotand others paid tribute to Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara. Prominent Punjabi Singer Sukhdev Sahil present Punjabi Poetry. Manjeet Singh played tabla with Sahil Sahib. Dalit Intellectual Makhan Lohar present his thoughts about the Dalits of India. Asha Sharma conduct the stage in this programme.
Bazigar Banjara Association, Bay Area California celebrated 445th Birth Anniversary of Goaar Nayak Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara at Sneha Restaurant, Sunnyvale,California, USA. Raj Bhanot, Pankaj Ansal, Tara Singh Sagar, Balbir Singh M.A., Sucha Ram Bharta, Saini Sahib, Mejor Singh Bains, Ajmer Singh, Om Parkash Kamal, Chanan Ram Dharamsot, Des Raj Dharamsot, Jeet Ram Duladdi, Prem Lalka, Ritesh Dharamsot, Binder Dharamsot, Mandeep Dharamsotand others paid tribute to Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara. Prominent Punjabi Singer Sukhdev Sahil present Punjabi Poetry. Manjeet Singh played tabla with Sahil Sahib. Dalit Intellectual Makhan Lohar present his thoughts about the Dalits of India. Asha Sharma conduct the stage in this programme.
Bazigar Banjara Association, Bay Area California celebrated 445th Birth Anniversary of Goaar Nayak Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara at Sneha Restaurant, Sunnyvale,California, USA. Raj Bhanot, Pankaj Ansal, Tara Singh Sagar, Balbir Singh M.A., Sucha Ram Bharta, Saini Sahib, Mejor Singh Bains, Ajmer Singh, Om Parkash Kamal, Chanan Ram Dharamsot, Des Raj Dharamsot, Jeet Ram Duladdi, Prem Lalka, Ritesh Dharamsot, Binder Dharamsot, Mandeep Dharamsotand others paid tribute to Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara. Prominent Punjabi Singer Sukhdev Sahil present Punjabi Poetry. Manjeet Singh played tabla with Sahil Sahib. Dalit Intellectual Makhan Lohar present his thoughts about the Dalits of India. Asha Sharma conduct the stage in this programme.
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(From Left) Margarita Astrálaga, UNEP Regional Director and Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean, H.E. Minister María Cristina Morales Palarea. Minister of Environment, Paraguay, Mr. Pavan Sukhdev – CEO of Green Initiatives for a Smart Tomorrow (GIST) and UNEP Goodwill Ambassador, Simon Buckle – Head of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Water Division, Environment Directorate, OECD and Tim Christophersen, Senior Programme Officer Forests and Climate Change, UNEP at the Financial Forces side event at COP 20
Bazigar Banjara Association, Bay Area California celebrated 445th Birth Anniversary of Goaar Nayak Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara at Sneha Restaurant, Sunnyvale,California, USA. Raj Bhanot, Pankaj Ansal, Tara Singh Sagar, Balbir Singh M.A., Sucha Ram Bharta, Saini Sahib, Mejor Singh Bains, Ajmer Singh, Om Parkash Kamal, Chanan Ram Dharamsot, Des Raj Dharamsot, Jeet Ram Duladdi, Prem Lalka, Ritesh Dharamsot, Binder Dharamsot, Mandeep Dharamsotand others paid tribute to Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara. Prominent Punjabi Singer Sukhdev Sahil present Punjabi Poetry. Manjeet Singh played tabla with Sahil Sahib. Dalit Intellectual Makhan Lohar present his thoughts about the Dalits of India. Asha Sharma conduct the stage in this programme.
Bazigar Banjara Association, Bay Area California celebrated 445th Birth Anniversary of Goaar Nayak Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara at Sneha Restaurant, Sunnyvale,California, USA. Raj Bhanot, Pankaj Ansal, Tara Singh Sagar, Balbir Singh M.A., Sucha Ram Bharta, Saini Sahib, Mejor Singh Bains, Ajmer Singh, Om Parkash Kamal, Chanan Ram Dharamsot, Des Raj Dharamsot, Jeet Ram Duladdi, Prem Lalka, Ritesh Dharamsot, Binder Dharamsot, Mandeep Dharamsotand others paid tribute to Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara. Prominent Punjabi Singer Sukhdev Sahil present Punjabi Poetry. Manjeet Singh played tabla with Sahil Sahib. Dalit Intellectual Makhan Lohar present his thoughts about the Dalits of India. Asha Sharma conduct the stage in this programme.
Bazigar Banjara Association, Bay Area, California celebrated 445th Birth Anniversary of Goaar Nayak Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara at Sneha Restaurant, Sunnyvale,California, USA. Raj Bhanot, Pankaj Ansal, Tara Singh Sagar, Balbir Singh M.A., Sucha Ram Bharta, Saini Sahib, Mejor Singh Bains, Ajmer Singh, Om Parkash Kamal, Chanan Ram Dharamsot, Des Raj Dharamsot, Jeet Ram Duladdi, Prem Lalka, Ritesh Dharamsot, Binder Dharamsot, Mandeep Dharamsotand others paid tribute to Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara. Prominent Punjabi Singer Sukhdev Sahil present Punjabi Poetry. Manjeet Singh played tabla with Sahil Sahib. Dalit Intellectual Makhan Lohar present his thoughts about the Dalits of India. Asha Sharma conduct the stage in this programme.
Sukhdev
Like many other freedom fighters, Sukhdev Thapar was also a famous Indian revolutionary who sacrificed his life for the cause of India’s independence. He was born on May 15, 1907 in Naughara in Ludhiana. Since childhood, he had witnessed the brutal behavior of British authorities on Indians and grew up with a firm decision and an earnest desire to set India free from British dominion.
Sukhdev was a member of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association and took active part in various revolutionary activities. He along with other revolutionaries founded the Naujawan Bharat Sabha with the aim to aware and gear up Indian youth for the freedom struggle showing them an imaginary picture of India’s future.
As a active participant of Lahore Conspiracy Case in 1928 and Prison Hunger Strike in 1929, Sukhdev shook the established foundation of British Government. On 1929, he along with his accomplice Bhagat Singh and Shivram Rajguru was arrested for assassinating Deputy Superitendent Saunder in 1928, thus avenging the death of Lalaji. The three brave revolutionaries were sentenced to death, as per the verdict, on March 23, 1931 and their bodies were secretly cremated on the banks of River Sutlej.
Bazigar Banjara Association, Bay Area California celebrated 445th Birth Anniversary of Goaar Nayak Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara at Sneha Restaurant, Sunnyvale,California, USA. Raj Bhanot, Pankaj Ansal, Tara Singh Sagar, Balbir Singh M.A., Sucha Ram Bharta, Saini Sahib, Mejor Singh Bains, Ajmer Singh, Om Parkash Kamal, Chanan Ram Dharamsot, Des Raj Dharamsot, Jeet Ram Duladdi, Prem Lalka, Ritesh Dharamsot, Binder Dharamsot, Mandeep Dharamsotand others paid tribute to Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara. Prominent Punjabi Singer Sukhdev Sahil present Punjabi Poetry. Manjeet Singh played tabla with Sahil Sahib. Dalit Intellectual Makhan Lohar present his thoughts about the Dalits of India. Asha Sharma conduct the stage in this programme.
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SWJ..M/._:t S~t.: 25-31 H~ fofn From Bhagat Singh to Com. Chandrashekhar : the Legacy Lives on ...... Film Screening .
Micha X. Peled's Classic (Ow: 59 mins.) on Assa ults of Corporate Globalisation on.
STORE WARS-When Wal Mart Comes to Town .
People's Lives, Livelihood .
"STORE WARS-When Waf Mort Comes to ToiVn" is the f irst film in Micho X. .
and Sovereignty .
Peled's 'Globalization Trilogy' which provides o powerful lesson for us bottling .
against entry of FOI in retail and the likes of Waf Mort on Indian soil. 29 March Tonight .
Micha X. Peled's latest Mahi Mandavi Mess .
Bitter Seeds (Our. 88 mins.) 9.30pm A powerful documentary expose on BT forming in Indio, .
'Bitt-er Seeds' is the third of Micho Peled's Globolosiation Trilogy. The film reveals the Monsanto's killer s-ronglehold over our agrarian sodety, the deadly impact of geneUcolly modified cotton on lnd1a's farmers, their huge financial stres.~, massive crop failure and spate of unabated suic,des. .
Every year, AISA observes 23-31 March as Shadat Saptal1. During this week, .
we commemorate the heroic lives and martyrdoms of those like Bhagat Singh and his comrades who have become a symbol of revolution. We remember the Incandescent lives of those like the revolutionary poet Paash martyred on 23 March. 1988 and Chandrashekhar Prasad. former JNUSU president-martyred in Si\.van on 31 March, 1997-who l1ved among the struggling people and were comm1tted to this struggle unto the last. .
In this era of massive. institutionalized and legalized corruption and corporate loot of resources. at a time when the powers-that-be are washing their hands off from their responsibility to defend livelihoods and provide for education and healthcare, mortgaging country's sovereignty under imperialist dictates and assaulting all democratic rights, it becomes all the more necessary to reassert the life and legacy of our martyrs, the causes they lived and died for. .
Bhagat Singh had warned that the Indian ruling class would be the 'bhure angrez' (brown British) replacing the 'gore angrez'(white British). His words ring true-now more tllan ever before -when India's ruling dass has ueen devastating India's peopleby oolicies that facilitate corporate and imperialist plunder. .
The systematic spread of corporate control over our agrarian economy over last two decades and latest offensive of FDI in retail sector are two most glaring instances of neo-liberal policy package that have hit the poorest strata of our society in a most direct manner. .
Agribusiness corporations, which control seeds and pesticides, introduce genetically modttied crops such as Bt Colton, have .
driven farmers into a trap of debt and despair. The result is what amounts to a genocide of_Qjjmarv oroduco?rs: ? .5 :a!<h farmer suicides in the past 16_years. accnrding to Government record~_ .
If corporate control in agriculture was bad enough .
as it is, now the government seeks to deepen it by introducing FOI in multi-brand retaiL According to the Government propaganda. corporate retail fuelled by FOI wiil result in lower pr!ces by ·eliminatingmiddlemen." We are being promised that FDI in retail will not threaten small retailer$, who will "coexist" with Walmart. We are .
being told that in fact FDI in retail will actually generate more employment' The government also claims that corporate retail will benefit farmers and producers by ensuring a "remunerative price". And finally, corporate retailers will remain restricted only to some areas and some sectors. .
Not ONE of these claims is justified by the available data and international experience anywhere in the world. Data from .
developing countries often shows that prices in supermarkets are most of the times higher than the existing retailers.· .
The claim of no effect on small retailers is also completely unsubstantiated. In Brazil, 1he share of street markets in for fruits and vegetables declined by 27.8% between 1987 and 1996 with the introduction of FDI in retail In Argentina, the number of smali stores dropped by 64,198 between 1984 and 1993-30% of the shops in the country. In India, the retail sector is also the refuge.
of around 4 crore people, those unable to find employment elsewhere. allowing them a chance to eke out a living by runninG s~all shops. pushing handcarts or selling vegetables on .
the street. So we should also ask the Government: how man.y jobs and means of survival will it jeopardize in India through FDI in retail? .
Most purchase for corporate retailers occurs through contract fgmn1nq v1h1ch sm all and marginal farmers are unable to access. .
Additionally, conditions for agricultural workers in supermarket suppliers is very bad, because of the intense pressure placed .
on farmers to reduce prices, guarantee arbitrary ·quality standards', handl~ last minute changes rn contracts and absorb discounts,.
promotions. etc. passed on to them. .
It is well known that an enquiry is underway in the US into allegations of bribery by Walmart, the corporate retail giant, in several countries including Mexico, India, China and BraziL There are Indications that Walmart and its subSidiaries paid bribes ir. order to expand its network ·of stores in those countries. Further, the Enforcement Directorate in "India is probing ·an allegationthat Walmart secretly and illegally invested 100 IT!illion dollars 1n its wholesale partner Bharti Enterprises. way back in 2010 when foreign players were barred from entry into India's retail bus1ness. At the same time, Walmart had disclosed that it spent Rs 125 .
crore since 2008 on lobbyif!g US senators on vanous issue~ including '"enhanced market access for investment in India ·· How .
exactly was the money spent on 'lobbying' for entry into lnd1a? VVho are the alleged recipienls of bribes by Walmart in Jndin,::!CCOrding to the ongoing enquiry? These unanswered questions indicate that the murky process by which the FQI in retail pclic:ylias been adopted_ .
Today, as we remember the legacy of Bhagat Smgtl-Sukhdev~Rc}JQUru, Paash and Com. Chandrashekhar, let us reiterate our commitment to oppose this entire gamut of anti-people policies being shoved down our throats. Tonight (29 March 2013), AISA is Screening Two Films on assaults of corpo1ate globalisati0n on people's lives, livelihood and sovereignty· 'Store Wars .
-When Wal Mart Comes to Town' and "Bitter Seeds· Store Wars i::. a film about how Walmart is being opposed by people in Ashland in .
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US and B1tter Seeds IS an expose of BT fann1ng 1n India and the impact of globrtltzation on lnd1an agriculture A~SA appeals to ·tt:t.~ .student community to participate in large numbers in the film screentng to".
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Moderator Tim Christophersen, Senior Programme Officer Forests and Climate Change, UNEP with H.E. Minister María Cristina Morales Palarea. Minister of Environment, Paraguay, Tefera Mengistu, Advisor to the State Minister of Forest, Ethiopian Ministry of Environment and Forest, Pavan Sukhdev – CEO of Green Initiatives for a Smart Tomorrow (GIST) and UNEP Goodwill Ambassador and Simon Buckle – Head of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Water Division, Environment Directorate, OECD at the Financial Forces side event at COP 20
Bazigar Banjara Association, Bay Area California celebrated 445th Birth Anniversary of Goaar Nayak Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara at Sneha Restaurant, Sunnyvale,California, USA. Raj Bhanot, Pankaj Ansal, Tara Singh Sagar, Balbir Singh M.A., Sucha Ram Bharta, Saini Sahib, Mejor Singh Bains, Ajmer Singh, Om Parkash Kamal, Chanan Ram Dharamsot, Des Raj Dharamsot, Jeet Ram Duladdi, Prem Lalka, Ritesh Dharamsot, Binder Dharamsot, Mandeep Dharamsotand others paid tribute to Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara. Prominent Punjabi Singer Sukhdev Sahil present Punjabi Poetry. Manjeet Singh played tabla with Sahil Sahib. Dalit Intellectual Makhan Lohar present his thoughts about the Dalits of India. Asha Sharma conduct the stage in this programme.
Bazigar Banjara Association, Bay Area California celebrated 445th Birth Anniversary of Goaar Nayak Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara at Sneha Restaurant, Sunnyvale,California, USA. Raj Bhanot, Pankaj Ansal, Tara Singh Sagar, Balbir Singh M.A., Sucha Ram Bharta, Saini Sahib, Mejor Singh Bains, Ajmer Singh, Om Parkash Kamal, Chanan Ram Dharamsot, Des Raj Dharamsot, Jeet Ram Duladdi, Prem Lalka, Ritesh Dharamsot, Binder Dharamsot, Mandeep Dharamsotand others paid tribute to Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara. Prominent Punjabi Singer Sukhdev Sahil present Punjabi Poetry. Manjeet Singh played tabla with Sahil Sahib. Dalit Intellectual Makhan Lohar present his thoughts about the Dalits of India. Asha Sharma conduct the stage in this programme.
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23-31 arch : Shahada SaptCih -As sert e Legacy Of Sukhdev,Rajguru Bhagat S ng .
23.3.08 Against Sell-Out Of India's Sovereigni To US lmperialis,.,! Against Communal Threat To People's Unrty! Against SEZs and State Terror' For Peoples' Ri ght To Land Livelihood and Dignity! .
"We don't wish to suffer by inviting a black evU to replace the white evil. Indian workers must come forward-overthrowing imperialists as well as their fndian agents who wish to perpetuate the same economic system rooted In exploitation.. "-Bhagat Singh, Draft Revolu 1onary Programme 1931 .
March 23, 1931 marked the hanging of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, and his comrades Sukhdev and Rajguru, by .
the colonial Brit1sh. What 1s Bhagat Singh's message for us today, after 77 years he was martyred? What must today's .
patriots and communists learn from him? He was not one to equate independence with a dream future full of rivers of milk .
and lakes of honey. Nor was he one to romanticise the past and promise a restoration of 'Ram rajya'. On the contrary he .
was the one who had warned the country that mere replacement of the British rulers by our own 'brown sahibs' would .
hardly make any difference. He was the one who old us that in order to challenge imperialism we must demolish the .
domestic basis of foreign rule -feudal forces and capitalist collaborators, the desi props of colonial raj and imperialist .
domination. He was the one to warn against the disastrous potential of communal politics and call for complete elimination .
of the sordid historical reality of social oppression and untouchability. .
Bhagat Singh's Legacy .
All sections of India's ruling class compete to claim Bhagat Singh as their own. The pro-US UPA Government of .
Manmohan Singh pays a lavish and ritualised homage to Bhagat Singh, while the RSS-BJP has always tried to claim .
Bhagat Singh as a Hindutva hero. Why this urgent need to co-opt Bhagat Singh, to appropriate and distort Bhagat Singh's .
legacy? The fact is that Bhagat Singh is still the most enduring symbol of youth's burning aspiration for freedom and social .
change. Those who are selling out India's freedom to imperialists, who need to define 'patriotism' as war-.
mongering and communalism rather than as anti-Imperialism, are desperate to tame and domesticate Bhagat .
Singh's legacy in order to smother that fire of radicalism within youth. .
From British Raj to Bush Raj As we look around us today, we see hundreds of Jallianwala Baghs being repeated by a repressive state machinery all over the country -in Jagatsingpur (POSCO), Kalingnagar. Singur, Nandigram, Gurgaon, Khammam and elsewhere. We are witnessing the largest land grab in the history of indepenoent India, as governments of all hues act as agents of corporate houses and promote "Special Economic Zones" in the name of."development". The deep communal wounds left by the British on our polity continue to bleed periodically. We are seeing thousands of people being booked under draco-nian laws like Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act (CSPSA) and Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), and Prevention of Terrorist Act (POTA). We see hunger and starvation reaching the same levels that they did under the British. We see farmers' traditional right over seeds usurped by the Monsantos as they are driven to suicide by debt and despera-tion. As the "brown sahlbs" In the form of the ruling parties and their corporate masters carry on the legacy of the white sahlbs, Bhagat Singh's insight stands visible in front of our eyes, and his revolutionary legacy ac-quires new meaning and relevance. .
Of Anti-Imperialist Nationalism, Not Communalism .
As the RSS-BJP pay obeisance to their ideologue 'Guru' Golwalkar, they also attempt to co-opt Bhagat Singh for their communal fascist plank. Can Golwalkar ever be reconciled with Bhagat Singh? When Bhagat Singh and his comrades were sacrificing their lives to resist British imperialism, Golwalkar was declaring that martyrs were 'selfish', and that the 'anti-Britishism' of the freedom fighters was 'reactionary', which had 'disastrous' effects for the country. The India of Bhagat Singh's dream was an India free from the 'exploitation of man by man'. Bhagat Singh was himself an atheist; disturbed by the frenzy fanned up by communal elements, he called for a complete separation of religion from politics, and declared that only a secular society could be the basis for a modern and free India. The India of Golwalkar's dream, on the other hand, was one in which the Muslims and Christians were "foreign races" who "must lose their separate existence to merge In the Hindu race, or may stay in the country, wholly subordinated to the Hindu Nation, claiming nothing, deserving no privileges, far tess any preferential treatment not even citizen's rights. " (Golwalkar, We or Our Nationhood Defined, 1938, .
p. 47-48) .
On 31 March, 1997, twice JNUSU President Chandrashekhar was shot dead by mafia RJD MP Shahabuddin at JP Chowk. Chandu, who , after his glorious tenures in JNU,had returned to his hometown Siwan as a CPI(ML) wholetimer, was campaigning for a Bihar Bandh against the massacre of Dalits during Holi by the Ranveer Sena. His killing sparked off a massive student movement where students faced lathis on Delhi's streets for a whole month. .
Remembering Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar cannot be reduced to hollow ritual; it must be an occasion to redefine the contours of our politics, in a way that brings to the fore those "revolutionary armies in the fields and ~he factories-peasants and workers" that Bhagat Singh spoke about. It is an occasion to commit ourselves to strengthemng all those struggles for social transformation and anti-imperialist resistance. To carry forward the undying spirit of Bhagat Singh to Chandrashekhar, AISA observes 23 31 March as Shahadat Saptah with public meeting, drama and film screen\ng documenting the challenges of our times. .
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me (left) with Mr Maninderjit Singh Bitta; Chairman AIATF in a rally on the eve of Martyrdom of Martyrs Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev & Rajguru who were hanged by British Government on 23rd March 1931, in Chandigarh, India
Bazigar Banjara Association, Bay Area California celebrated 445th Birth Anniversary of Goaar Nayak Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara at Sneha Restaurant, Sunnyvale,California, USA. Raj Bhanot, Pankaj Ansal, Tara Singh Sagar, Balbir Singh M.A., Sucha Ram Bharta, Saini Sahib, Mejor Singh Bains, Ajmer Singh, Om Parkash Kamal, Chanan Ram Dharamsot, Des Raj Dharamsot, Jeet Ram Duladdi, Prem Lalka, Ritesh Dharamsot, Binder Dharamsot, Mandeep Dharamsotand others paid tribute to Baba Lakhi Shah Ji Banjara. Prominent Punjabi Singer Sukhdev Sahil present Punjabi Poetry. Manjeet Singh played tabla with Sahil Sahib. Dalit Intellectual Makhan Lohar present his thoughts about the Dalits of India. Asha Sharma conduct the stage in this programme.