GANDHI’S EXAMPLE

Evening Star, Issue 22033, 20 May 1935, Page 9

GANDHI’S EXAMPLE

FORTY SIKH WOMEN TO STARVE TO DEATH

PROTEST AGAINST RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright CALCUTTA, May 19. (Received May 20, at 11 a.m.) 'Forty high-caste Sikh women announced their determination to starve themselves to death as a protest against differences in religious leadership disrupting this vAst martial community in Northern India. , Mrs Amrit Kaur, a prominent Sikh womeh’s leader, in announcing the decisions, says the community at present is disunited, disrupted, and the laughing stock of the world. Sikhs were denied political rights in the Punjab province and ignored by the Government and Congress Party, Their great temples have become citadels of individual power and corruption, and the loaders are quarrelling with each other. Mrs Kaur added; “The women will slowly die. They will never retract once the fast has begun. They will fast at a secret spot unknown even to near relatives.”. •

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