Gyani Zail Singh

Giani Zail Singh… Instead of the banal things often said for him.. Like he was the Indian politician.. a great learned man ( which pre-fixed Gyani in his name ) … member of Congress Party.. the 7th president of India…now…instead of all this known stuff, I would like to talk about something unsaid, unpopular… something which is not much talked about or argued on.. My source of inspiration for writing about him came from one of the articles by Khushwant Singh… where he has raised excellent questions.. and answered them... there itself… This article won’t be for those who know nothing about Zail Singh.. If you are one of them.. it okay to click the “x” on top right corner of the screen, but of you got a fair idea about this man, this article may interest you…

It is clearly known that “He was the President of India during Operation Blue Star, the assassination of Indira Gandhi, and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.” For this part a very important question was raised by Khushwant.. that did he as President sanction the storming of the Golden temple and did he warn “Madam Dictator” about its consequences and impact on Sikh community… ? ? ?

In this article and most of the articles it is stated that he was not even informed about the attack, the Indian Army was about to attack the Golden Temple… even though Army is under the direct command of President of India… ( Is President a puppet of Prime Minister or what ? ? ?) …It stands to a reason that had Gyani ji been informed about it, he would have at least advised PM to defer the action and avoid the killings of the pilgrims who would be present on the martyrdom anniversary of the builder of the temple.. …After the attack, a lot of Sikh resigned from their government posts, many Sikhs revolted in the army, but Gyani ji was attached to his post as a president and did nothing about the whole thing..

Then when Indira Gandhi was murdered by two Singhs named Beant Singh and Satwant Singh, Giani Zail Singh made Rajiv Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India. Rajiv Gandhi's party and henchmen killed more then 7000+ Sikhs (Government of India estimates), but nothing much was done for 3 bloody days in the Indian History..

A friend of mine, Marpreet, told me about a book… “When a tree shook Delhi”… that has off-the-record “records” about what all happened on the first 3 days of Nov 1984… A very crucial point was raised that this does not qualify as carnage, but “pogrom” would be the appropriate word as it was all organized. Had it been spontaneous, it would have started on 31st Oct instead Nov 1st……

A very interesting and clever scenario was told to me… My ancestors, 3 decade ago, were at RSD college ( Ferozpur Cantt ), where Zail Singh came to distribute the degrees to them.. During the speech he said: “ Krishna ji ne 14 saal ka banwaas kaata tha…”… one of his “chelas” said that it was not Shri Krishna, but Shri Ram who went for “banwaas”… During rectification, he said that it is the same thing.. as there is one GOD.. “Shri Krishna hi Shri Raam the”…

Apart from all this, the next question which was raised was : “ Did Gyani ji play any role in elevating Bhindrawale from a rustic bhai to a political monster ?”… On this it is said that Gyani ji met Bhindrawale only once, that also during “kirtan” in the Gurudwara,… There is no visible possibility that he had any role in promoting him…

The third important question that is raised: “What did he do to curb the anti-Sikh violence and what help did he render the victims…?

It is said that during the carnage, he stayed in Rashtrapati Bhavan and no visit was paid at the refugee camps to solace the victims…

But, we need to wait till we have the actual proof about what all happened.. Why did he not do anything.. Was this his own choice or a forced decision.. What was it ???