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Central unified committee president Naindeep Singh, portion speaking to The Indian Express implicit phone, said: "This would astir apt beryllium the archetypal nationalist (government) schoolhouse successful the US to beryllium named aft a idiosyncratic from Sikh community.
An upcoming nationalist simple schoolhouse successful Fresno of California metropolis successful the US volition beryllium named aft Punjab’s quality rights activistic precocious Jaswant Singh Khalra.
A determination successful this respect was taken during the gathering of Fresno’s Central Unified School District Tuesday late, aft astatine slightest six of 7 committee members voted successful favour of the proposal.
Khalra, who hailed from Punjab’s Tarn Taran district, is known arsenic “Laawaris Laashan Da Waaris” (Protector of unclaimed bodies), He vehemently fought against alleged fake encounters of Sikh youths by Punjab Police during militancy period. He besides utilized to cremate the unclaimed bodies of specified youths killed successful extra-judicial killings. He was allegedly abducted and killed by Punjab Police successful September 1995. Four policemen were aboriginal sentenced to beingness imprisonment for his murder.
Central unified committee president Naindeep Singh, portion speaking to The Indian Express implicit phone, said: “This would astir apt beryllium the archetypal nationalist (government) schoolhouse successful the US to beryllium named aft a idiosyncratic from Sikh community. Of 7 members successful the board, six voted successful the favour and 1 abstained from voting. The schoolhouse gathering is already nether operation and it volition beryllium inaugurated successful September. We already person a parkland named aft Khalra successful Fresno. People present cognize of his struggles and combat for quality rights astatine mass-level. Not conscionable Sikhs but everyone from the section assemblage respects him.”
Speaking to The Indian Express, Paramjit Kaur Khalra, the woman of the deceased quality rights activist, said that it was a substance of immense happiness and pridefulness for her that her precocious husband’s sacrifice and publication for quality rights was being recognized successful the US with the naming of a nationalist schoolhouse aft him. “We got to cognize of this heartening improvement a fewer hours backmost and we truly admit it. This lone signifies that radical crossed the satellite are alert of each that my hubby did for extortion of quality rights,” she said.
Incidentally, Khalra’s girl has been a pupil of Fresno’s nationalist assemblage wherever she studied for 3 years. She presently works successful the US.
Meanwhile successful India, the biopic connected Khalra’s beingness “Punjab 95” continues to await clearance from the authorities concerned. There’s nary clarity if the film, with the histrion Diljit Dosanjh playing Khalra’s role, volition beryllium released successful India oregon not. Paramjit said: “Our lone privation is that the movie should beryllium released without immoderate cuts arsenic it is wholly based connected facts including tribunal proceedings. But it is not successful my hands to get the movie released. It volition beryllium released lone erstwhile the authorities approves.”
Divya Goyal is simply a Principal Correspondent with The Indian Express, based successful Punjab. Her involvement lies successful exploring some quality and diagnostic stories, with an effort to bespeak quality involvement astatine the bosom of each piece. She writes connected sex issues, education, politics, Sikh diaspora, heritage, the Partition among different subjects. She has besides extensively covered issues of number communities successful Pakistan and Afghanistan. She besides explores the bequest of India's partition and chiseled stories from some West and East Punjab. She is simply a golden medalist from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, the astir revered authorities institute for media studies successful India, from wherever she pursued English Journalism (Print). Her probe enactment connected “Role of micro-blogging level Twitter successful contented procreation successful newspapers” had won accolades astatine IIMC. She had started her vocation successful people journalism with Hindustan Times earlier switching to The Indian Express successful 2012. Her investigative study successful 2019 connected sex disparity portion treating women cause addicts successful Punjab won her the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity successful 2020. She won different Laadli for her crushed study connected the conflict of 2 girls who thrust a vessel to scope their schoolhouse successful the borderline colony of Punjab. ... Read More
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