{"id":35219,"date":"2015-06-02T19:22:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T19:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/?p=35219"},"modified":"2015-06-02T19:22:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T19:22:44","slug":"dsgmc-president-meets-indian-ambassador-to-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/35219","title":{"rendered":"DSGMC President meets Indian Ambassador to USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Takes up issue of black list, denial visa to Sikhs, their families<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35220\" src=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/PPN0206201508.jpg\" alt=\"PPN0206201508\" width=\"712\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/PPN0206201508.jpg 712w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/PPN0206201508-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>New Delhi (Washington) June 2 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; \u00a0<\/strong>As a follow up to the assurance by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj to resolve the issues of Sikhs living in foreign countries including scraping of the back list and allowing visas and renewing of passport to all Sikhs and their families who were denied the right, a delegation of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) led by President Manjit Singh GK met Ambassador of India to the United States of America in Washington Arun Kumar Singh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a memorandum submitted to the Ambassador GK demanded that a beginning be made to start a process for issuing visas and renewing of passports of all the Sikhs and their families who are denied the right without citing a valid reason.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a memorandum submitted to the Ambassador GK said that these Sikh families who have contributed in a big way in foreign countries as businessmen, professionals, intellectuals and technocrats and skilled and unskilled man power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBut they miss their homeland, wants to stay attached to their roots and invest back home,\u201d said GK adding that he felt anguished listening to the heart rending accounts of these asylees and those banned by the Indian government as some of them have lost their parents but couldn\u2019t attend to their last rights and many of them missed family celebrations as they are not allowed to travel to India since 30 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the memorandum he adds that during the turbulent times of 1980s to 90s, and 1984 genocide in which thousands of innocent Sikhs were done to death mercilessly, a large number of Sikh families out of fear of state terror and their families getting killed, migrated to the north American countries of USA and Canada, Europe and to Australia and New Zealand, seeking political asylum. \u201cIt was such a scenario that they were left with no option but to save their lives they sought asylum in these countries. Adding to their miseries a large number of asylum seekers were booked in the cases back in India for no fault of theirs,\u201d GK further adds in the memorandum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DSGMC General Secretary Manjinder Singh Sirsa, Chairman Dharam Parchar Committee Paramjit Singh Rana and Chairman of a Committee on Foreign Affairs Puneet Singh Chandok are also accompanying are also accompanying in the ongoing visit to USA. Prominent Sikhs based in USA including Jasdip Singh Jassi, MP Singh, Jatinder Singh Vohra and MS Soni accompanied GK in the meeting with Indian Ambassador.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During their visit the delegation met these families, alongwith different Sikh organisations, and Gurdwara bodies in New York, New Jersey, Washington, Maryland and Virginia. \u201cThese families want to go back and visit their roots, their religious shrines. Their children in age group 40-45 years and grand children have never visited India,\u201d adds Manjit Singh GK in the memorandum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It needs mention that a delegation led by Minister of state in cabinet Harsimrat Kaur Badal has met PM Narendra Modi before and after his visit to USA which comprised Manjit Singh GK and other office bearers of DSGMC and had demanded scraping of black list and allowing all the Sikhs and their families settled in foreign countries travel to India. Modi and Sushma has given assurance to deal with the issue sympathetically.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDSGMC also offer full support to coordinate with government of India and Indian Embassy in USA,\u201d said the memorandum requesting for resolving the issue at earliest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The memorandum reminded that Sikhs had laid their lives for freedom of India and played active role in nation building and have played active role in maintaining peace across the globe. Their role in World Wars \u2013 I &amp; II have been recoganised by different nations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">GK also referred that previous government in a systematic manner never tried to resolve the problem contrary to the fact that Kashmiri hardliners were given amnesty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coming out of the Indian Embassy in Washington Manjit Singh GK said that Ambassador assured him to take the matter forward resolved it at earliest. \u201cEarlier the Indian government also seems keen to move the issue further to a logical conclusion. I am duty bound to work for my Sikh brethren,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takes up issue of black list, denial visa to Sikhs, their families New Delhi (Washington) June 2 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; \u00a0As a follow up to the assurance by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj to resolve the issues of Sikhs living in foreign countries including scraping of the back &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-english"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DSGMC President meets Indian Ambassador to USA | Punjab Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/35219\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DSGMC President meets Indian Ambassador to USA | Punjab Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Takes up issue of black list, denial visa to Sikhs, their families New Delhi (Washington) June 2 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; 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