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Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale: Extremist or a spiritual leader?

Sant Jarnail Singh was the leader of the Sikh organization Damdami Taksal, and a notable supporter of the Anandpur Resolution. He advocated against the consumption of liquor, drugs and laxness in religious practices, such as the cutting of Kesh by Sikh youth. He used to speak and people began noticing him.
I consider Bhindranwale pure on the grounds that when I read about him, he postures just a couple of things that can be frightful yet when I see on the Govt. side, there is a great deal. Do you truly believe that Army was there for him to surrender!! One may effortlessly address why he was displaying weapons yet what else he would do when the legislature was over him. Now and then I likewise ponder what constrained him to move into the Gurudwara Sahib at first (to what I named as questionable), however when I see what the govt. did, nothing can make for it. In addition the govt. pick the day when the no. of devotee were substantially more than the ordinary day. You may consider me as a one-sided yet when I consider his deeds, the man believed that rings a bell is there must be some explanation for his this activity (moving into the sanctuary) to which I am obscure till date. 
It merits saying two essential dates, on 6 October 1983 President Rule was implemented in Punjab amid which you know Police can make any move on the off chance that it even kill one being a wrong individual, And we as a whole know how faithful Police can move toward becoming. What's more, on 15 December 1983, Jarnail Singh moved into the Gurudwara Complex, when it turned out to be evident that Govt. won't deflect Army activity ever, {Ranbhir Sandhu states that Bhindranwale introduced himself, alongside more than 50 of his supporters, at the Deputy Commissioner's living arrangement on the day he moved to the Darbar Sahib complex: subsequently, his motivation in moving there was not to avoid the law Gurdev Singh, District Magistrate at Amritsar till right away before the attack is on record as having guaranteed the Governor of the express that he could capture anybody in Darbar Sahib whenever. source-Wikipedia.} I concede he used to talk intensely against then PM Indira Gandhi and some other people who carried on improperly with the group yet that doesn't make him a fear monger. He had the impact among individuals and at times they did what shouldn't be however he can't be reprimanded for that.

On April 13, 1978, 

GurSikhs of Akhand Kirtani Jatha went to peaceful protest against Nirankaris who were preaching against the Sikh Gurus. Before reaching the place where the Nirankari Gurbachan Singh was preaching the protesters were fired upon. The confrontation led to the murder of thirteen members of the Akhand Kirtani Jatha and 3 Nirankari. The FIR named twenty-two persons, several of whom were known associates of Bhindranwale. The victims were implicated & this infuriated Sikhs further. The FIR filed against Gurbachan Singh amounted to nothing except, him being acquitted of all the cases which were registered against him at the Karnal high court.

On April 24, 1980,

 the leader of Nirankaris, Gurbachan Singh, was killed. The FIR named nearly 20 people involved in the murder, most of whom had ties to Sant Bhindranwale. He was subsequently implicated in ordering the assassination. A carpenter from Delhi, Ranjit Singh, surrendered himself to the police for committing the assassination three years later, and he was sentenced to serve 13 years at the Tihar Jail. Bhindranwale was later released as he could not be charged by the police due to lack of evidence.

On September 9, 1981, 

Lala Jagat Narain, the proprietor of the Hindu Samachar Group, was shot dead near the Amaltas Motel. Lala Jagat Narain was a prominent opponent of Sant Bhindranwale. Two days after the assassination, police issued warrants for the arrest of Sant Bhindranwale. Under the command of the then DIG the police reached Chando Kalan, a Haryana village, failed to produce any arrest, and because of this the police burned two buses in which the path is of Guru Granth Sahib lay. Upon seeing this, Sant Bhidranwale publicly announced that he would surrender on September 20, 1981.

On September 20, 1981, 

Sant Bhindranwale was arrested on charges of orchestrating Lala Jagat Narain's murder. After the arrest the public was outraged, there were clashes between the young Sikhs and the police, the police, trying to bring the crowd under control opened fire into the crowd, as a result, 18 people were dead and score left injured. Over the next 25 days, while Bhindranwale was held in custody, sporadic fights erupted in areas where Bhindranwale's accomplices had gathered. Bhindranwale was released on bail on October 15 as India's Home Minister, Giani Zail Singh announced in the Parliament that there was no evidence against Bhindrawale.
In a public statement issued soon after, Bhindranwale expressed his approval for Lala Jagat Narain's murder. In this statement, he accused Narain of writing distastefully about the lives of the Sikh financial experts. In his paper, Narain wrote in his editorial that the tenth Guru of the Sikh Guru Gobind Singh used to live like prince and he had other vices. The Sikhs of Punjab wrote to Lala Jagat Narain about the article expressing their anger but instead of apologising for the article Narain spewed more venom at the Sikhs by accusing them of being traitors to India. The staff of Narain's newspaper, the Punjab Kesri, and its distributors were targeted for some months and 62 people linked to the paper were murdered so, things like this happened in Punjab but every point Bhindrawala was clean as once he himself surrendered too, but no proof was found against him.
As a famous saying Revolutionary for one can be terrorist for other. It's just the matter of perspective, but as an individual what I believe is that many get indulged in criminal activities due to circumstances which may have created by society or by the government or due to some other reason.
After his death, there was anger among Sikhs especially due to attack on Gurudwara Complex by the army that too on the day when people had accumulated there to celebrate the Gurupurab. This gave rise to so-called ‘Terrorism’. People started killing the guilty themselves. Police murdered many on the name terrorist. Fake encounters were everyday headlines. Some instigators did misdeeds for their personal benefits. And this continued for years.
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