{"id":5814,"date":"2022-07-23T12:10:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T06:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akalidalamritsar.in\/?p=5814"},"modified":"2022-07-23T12:10:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T06:40:45","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-the-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akalidalamritsar.in\/?p=5814","title":{"rendered":"Letter To The Editor The Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\"><strong><em>Camp-New Delhi, 21st July,2022,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\"><strong>Refuting news of The Tribune Dated 21st July, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\"><strong>The vicious attack of The Tribune on Simranjit Singh M\u0101nn continuous unabated. The reason is that he has defeated the forces of Hindutva and is now an elected Member of Parliament.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\"><strong>In today\u2019s Tribune dated 21st July-2022 under the heading \u2013 \u201cSarai Naga encounter was real, claims MP\u201d, the writer of the news item Mr. Vishav Bharti states that the \u201cformer IAS officer Gurtej Singh, who wrote a write-up on the 1979 incident, rubbished Mann\u2019s claims and said there was no doubt that Nihangs were killed after they were made to surrender. He said his source of his information was then District Magistrate Gurbax Singh Gosal\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\"><strong>The fact is on the records of the court that the District Magistrate Sardar Gosal was the star witness of the Sarai Naga encounter. If the star witness Sardar Gosal told Mr. Gurtej Singh that the Nihangs were killed after they surrendered. The court records says no such thing. If Sardar Gosal had told Mr. Gurtej Singh what the latter alleges then the District Magistrate is incriminating himself in the case and no IAS officer would ever dig his own grave.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\"><strong>Mr. Gurtej Singh is totally wrong and The Tribune to spite Sardar Mann is making such allegations totally on communal lines, as the election results of the Sangrur byelection indicate that the Shriomani Akali Dal (Amritsar) has broken the very backbone of Hindutva and the Panhtic agenda of the Akali\u2019s is back to give hope, succour and strength to the shattered morale of the Sikh\u2019s after Operation Bluestar of 1984.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\"><strong>Mr. Gurtej Singh then quoted by the Tribune states that \u201che had sent his so called write up to Mann and sought his clarification. Mann, the former officer said, did not respond and, instead blocked his email id\u201d. This is the fiction of Mr. Gurtej Singh and The Tribune as Simranjit Singh M\u0101nn is still in-conversant with handling IT and Social Platform.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\"><strong>Simranjit Singh M\u0101nn did no shooting himself in the Sarai Naga encounter, as alleged by the Tribune. This is the falsehood of The Tribune. He did the crawling with his troops and knew that firing with his revolver would not be effective as shooting from a revolver is only effective at short range.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\"><strong>Then The Tribune states that Mr. Gurtej Singh denies that he was not the Deputy Home Secretary at the time of the Sarai Naga encounter. The Tribune says that Mr. Gurtej Singh says, instead he was posted to Faridkot a year after the incident. This again is a false cook up by the Tribune as these facts can be checked from the Punjab Government records. The Tribune states that a year after the encounter Mr. Gurtej Singh got posted to Faridkot. This means that the Tribune\u2019s version is that Mr. Gurtej Singh was posted to Faridkot in 1980. Simranjit Singh M\u0101nn was the SSP of Faridkot then and it is a fact that this again is a pigment of the Tribune\u2019s imagination running wild to pin down Simranjit Singh M\u0101nn in whatever manner it can achieve its aim of discrediting Simranjit Singh M\u0101nn.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\"><strong>In other words The Tribune has always carried a bias against the Sikh\u2019s and as Simranjit Singh M\u0101nn fights for the very survival of Sikhism amidst the powerful and militarised Hindutva, the Tribune founded by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia who was converted to the Arya Samaj sect is hell bent to destroy Simranjit Singh M\u0101nn and engage itself in yellow Journalism.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\"><strong>The fact remains that the writer Mr. Vishav Bharti concludes his write up by stating that Simranjit Singh Mann destroyed the Hindutva macho image of Hindutva by not praising the Hindutva idol Bhagat Singh.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\"><strong>We think the Sikh\u2019s and Simranjit Singh Mann will have to live with the schism now prevalent in the Hindutva majoritarian country. The Sikh\u2019s and Simranjit Singh Mann will survive nevertheless, and carry on the crusade against the Hindu Rashtra.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#072fe3\"><strong><em>Facta non Verba.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#0720e3\"><strong><em>Mutare Sperno.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#0720e3\"><strong><em>From : Randeep Singh<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#0711e3\"><strong><em>Secretary to Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#0727e3\"><strong><em>Email: <a href=\"mailto:simranjitsinghmann@yahoo.com\">simranjitsinghmann@yahoo.com<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#0727e3\"><strong><em>Website <a href=\"https:\/\/akalidalamritsar.in\/\">https:\/\/akalidalamritsar.in\/<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camp-New Delhi, 21st July,2022, Refuting news of The Tribune Dated 21st July, 2022 The vicious attack of The Tribune on Simranjit Singh M\u0101nn continuous unabated. The reason is that he has defeated the forces of Hindutva and is now an elected Member of Parliament. In today\u2019s Tribune dated 21st July-2022 under the heading \u2013 \u201cSarai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akalidalamritsar.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akalidalamritsar.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akalidalamritsar.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akalidalamritsar.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akalidalamritsar.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/akalidalamritsar.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5815,"href":"https:\/\/akalidalamritsar.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814\/revisions\/5815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akalidalamritsar.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akalidalamritsar.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akalidalamritsar.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}