Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 11: Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) president Manjinder Singh Sirsa, today urged the majority community to ensure the safety of the minority community in Kashmir, saying that it is their responsibility to protect the lives and property of the minority community.
The Sikh leader was here to meet the family of Surinder Kaur, a school principal, who was recently killed by militants in Srinagar. According to him, the attackers’ main goal is to shatter the brotherhood and scare away the minority community from the Valley, as well as to damage the social fabric that has been intact for several years.
“They want to create a communal divide here, but we will never allow it. I appeal to the majority community that it is up to them to protect the lives and property of the minority community here, not the Government,” he said.
He said the majority should think about the fact that they have a minority community with whom they have shared brotherhood for a long time. “We would have offered our lives to protect any community if something like this had happened in our presence,” he said.
Sirsa continued he had a long relationship with the principal because she was always concerned about the Valley’s social fabric, and they used to talk about it on the phone. “We never expected to come here to express our condolences,” he said.
He said that the majority community should take a stand against such acts in order to ensure that the majority community does not tolerate attacks on the minority community and that no lives are lost as a result. “This has happened before and we have thwarted such incidents, and we will do everything we can in the future to protect everyone in our immediate vicinity,” he said.
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