Sikh community in lakhimpur kheri hit hard by violence

 

The spot close to Tikonia village in which violence erupted on Sunday at some stage in a farmers’ protest is amid a place related to the lifestyles of Guru Nanak Dev, the founding father of Sikhism. Granthi Baljeet Singh from Kaudiyawala Ghat Gurudwara speaks the Guru got here right here in 1554 and preserved someone of kodh, or leprosy. The shrine receives its call from there.

The religious accept as true with that a dip within the sarovar’ of the gurdwara, placed near the spot in which 8 human beings have been killed, can remedy human beings of pores and skin diseases. Lakhimpur Kheri district and the adjacent regions within the Terai had been domestic to Sikh farmers for generations — which include people who got here at some stage in the time of the Awadh nawabs, migrants from undivided Punjab and the greater current settlers.

On Sunday, Sikh farmers formed an extensive quantity of these protesting over the go to of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya. And all of the 4 useless farmers had Punjabi names. They have been allegedly mowed down through an automobile sporting BJP workers. The different 4 sufferers blanketed BJP workers, allegedly lynched through indignant protesters.

Many farmers from Lakhimpur Kheri and the neighbouring regions within the Terai had been actively worried within the protests in opposition to the agri-advertising and marketing legal guidelines enacted on the Centre final year. Many have made journeys to the protest on sites on Delhi’s borders ruled through farmers from Punjab and Haryana — in which the agitation has been on for months now. They additionally attended the Kisan Mahapanchayat in Muzaffarnagar last month.

Bahraich, Shahjahanpur and Pilibhit are most of the different Uttar Pradesh districts with a vast populace of Sikh farmers. Largest in place most of the seventy five UP districts, Lakhimpur Kheri is thought for sugarcane cultivation, and there are 9 sugar turbines within the district.

Sarjit Singh, a retired sports activities instructor at a central authority faculty in Bahraich, says Sikh farmers from Punjab began out shopping for forestland within the Terai districts due to the fact the equal sum of money might get them larger portions of land than lower back domestic. “Some offered their 5 bighas of land in Punjab and purchased 25 bigha in Bahraich close to the forests," he says. But there had been settlers in advance as well. Balwant Singh Ramoowalia, who has been a minister in UP and on the Centre, stated Sikhs got here to Lakhimpur Kheri from undivided Punjab within the 1940s.

Earlier, the nawabs of Awadh endorsed participants of the network to settle within the place, and plenty of offered land, he tells PTI. “The first leader minister of Uttar Pradesh, Govind Ballabh Pant, too had endorsed Sikhs to shop for land on this place," says Ramoowalia, now a member of the UP legislative council from Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party. According to an aged Pyara Singh, there are 3 or 4 lakh Sikhs in Lakhimpur Kheri.

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