This document contains the contents of the presidential address delivered by the president of Shiromani Akali Dal on its 75th anniversary. The address highlights the Sikh sacrifices made during India's independence as well as in the post-independent India. It also expresses its anguish over the betrayal of the Sikhs by the Indian state by going back from the solemn promises and pledges made by the leading Indian congress leaders to the Sikhs before partition of India. The Sikhs and the Punjab neither got an autonomous state within Indian union nor any hold on their natural resources. The address reflects the Sikh Community's sense of bitterness, injustice and betrayal and the hurt it has caused to their psycho. It is a valid expression of Sikh sentiments[edit]
