Ribeiro can’t help having pot shots at the Sikh’s. – Simranjit Singh Mann, Member of Parliament
The Tribune Dated 31st March 2023.
Comments by Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann: Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) states that when I was posted as an IPS officer in Bombay, Mr. Julio Ribeiro was a very well-known and smart Commissioner of Police of Bombay. He was well known for smashing Goonda dens, prostitution rackets and scalawags of all kinds.
Then the Union Government of Indira Gandhi thought of sending him to the Punjab to fight the Sikh’s attempting to create a separate Sikh State. He arrived in the Punjab with a big hype created by the press, backed by the Union Government that they now had a Super Cop to take on the Sikhs.
On arrival in the Punjab he thought he was going to give the Sikh’s, whom he called terrorists and radicals a tough time. He found the Deputy Home Minister of the Punjab Capt. Kawaljit Singh a fellow traveller who also relished the work Mr. Ribeiro had done in Bombay, chasing goonda’s and big dada’s. The twosome began mounting a helicopter, flew it over the marshes of the rivers Sutlaj and Beas, looked for any movement in the marshes and elephant grass and took great delight at taking pot shots with their rifles at anything that moved presuming they were Sikh freedom fighters.
Mr. Ribeiro gave a new thrust to this freedom movement and coined a phrase – “bullet for bullet”, in the Western Cowboy comics and thrillers style by authors like James Patterson, Melissa Lenhardt and J. A. Jance’s etc.
The Sikh’s who were fighting for their freedom were soon on his heels and had few pot shots at Mr. Ribeiro in the Punjab Armed Police Lines, but Mr. Ribeiro was quick to duck and hide and escaped harm.
As Mr. Ribeiro had now come openly into the battlefield the Government at the Union thought it wise to end such personal enmity and posted him to Romania as its Ambassador at Bucharest. As His Exalted Excellency at Bucharest did not follow the Biblical advice that vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord and I will recompense it, in his diplomatic capacity Mr. Ribeiro like in the present article written in The Tribune dated 31st March 2023, kept on hammering the Sikh’s in one way or the other in speech, word and write ups. The Sikh’s again got after him and once again attacked him in Bucharest.
Some of the Sikh’s suffered arrest and Mrs. Ribeiro begged them to spare her husband and not go after him as her husband would not utter a word of hatred against the Sikh’s.
But we are sorry to read in this article in The Tribune that old habits die hard and Mr. Ribeiro continues his rant against the Sikh peoples as there is complete peace and tranquility in the Punjab and amongst the Sikh’s who are engaged in their livelihoods in these difficult times when the weather bringing in heavy rain and hail has destroyed their entire wheat crop and they live destitute lives as the Union radicalized BJP – RSS Government has stopped recruitment in the armed forces, paramilitary forces, police services in the Union Territories and Assam Rifles etc.
There are no trade and commerce activity for the Sikh’s as their border for trade with Islamic Pakistan has been shut, though trade in commerce continue with Communist China which has occupied some 39,000 Sq. Kms. of Ladakh territory in 1962 and again some 2000 sq kms. of territory in 2020 and 2022. The Hindu Indian state has a trade deficit with Communist China of $1 billion.
One thing we can say about Mr. Ribeiro is that he does not like his Christian faith being trampled upon by the right wing Hindutva state.
So this is in short the story of the Sikh’s today while Mr. Ribeiro now probably sitting on his high perch keeps having pot shots at the Sikh’s and giving his imagination a long, wide berth. Good luck Mr. Ribeiro. You have the luck of the devil.
Simranjit Singh Mānn,
President,
Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar),
Email: simranjitsinghmann@yahoo.com
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