Dhanbad, Dec. 18: Three hundred Sikhs belonging to 60 families in Sindri might once again have to bear the bitter taste of displacement as they did following the Partition and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

The Food Corporation of India (FCI) management has not only asked them to vacate the buildings but will also withdraw water and power supply to the township.

The Sikh community, which had migrated to Sindri from various parts of Pakistan soon after Partition played a vital role in establishing the fertiliser plant and other industrial and business units here. But the anti-Sikh riots in 1984 forced them to migrate.

All of them fled to Punjab when the then Punjab chief minister Surjit Singh Barnala arranged for their rehabilitation in the state.

“Offended” by the move, the then Bihar chief minister Chandrashekhar Singh immediately rushed senior officers to Punjab to persuade “Biharis” to return home.

The Sikhs returned on the assurance from the Bihar government. The closure of FCI unit here has again displaced them, leaving them in uncertainty.

Sri Guru Nanak Singh Sabha Samiti president Sew Singh said he has sent two letters to Jharkhand chief minister Babulal Marandi but had not received any reply.

The Amrinder Singh government in Punjab too is not ready to accommodate them.

Repeated requests to the Takht Harmandir Saheb in Patna, the Prime Minister’s office, the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak committee and National Minority Commission has also fallen on deaf ears. “Only former MP Balwant Singh Ramuvalia has sent a reply to our letter, but he too has not been able to find an amicable solution,” Singh added.

According to Singh, the financial condition of the Sikhs residing in Sindri is not strong enough to build new houses elsewhere. They want government support for their rehabilitation.