I hope you read the article I posted. Minor confrontation, my @ss. If there was no common government both factions could approach, or be approached, different sections of Punjab would tear each other down.
As for there being no Sikh troops in Punjab, get your facts right again. Or quit it, it’s too hard for your types to digest. And tell that to KPS Gill and his Sikh troops too.
And for that nonsense about giving plebiscites to individual states of the Indian Union, dude, get real. That’s not the way nations are built. If it were the way, the then-government of the United States would have settled the Southern Question by a plebiscite. But it didn’t. And wisely so. Otherwise, there would be two power blocs fighting each other off, to the detriment of both, like you envisage, for the INDIAN STATE of Punjab, and for the rest of the country on the whole.
Yes I did read the article. I urge you to do the same.
In an independent Khalistan, there would be a predominantly Sikh (but secular) government to which both sides could appeal, one that shares the culture that animates both groups, whatever their differing views. They would be able to take their case to people who understand their worldview, not people who just look on all of them as “a criminal tribe.”
I didn’t say there were no Sikh troops in Punjab, and of course the police are mainly Sikh, although the police officials are often not and are generally under the thumb of Delhi. hat I said, which is accurate, is that most of the troops in Punjab are of other groups and most of the Sikh troops are assigned to other states, largely minority ones. That is a fact.
Why do you suppose that Punjab farmers are forced to buy fertilizer and other supplies at exorbitantly high prices and then forced to sell their crops at sub-market prices? It’s the Indian government that is forcing them to do that. That is just one more reason for them to seek independence.
Did you know that when he was DGP, KPS gill met with Damdami Taksal? The organizations involved in this incident have been heavily government-infiltrated. India is stokign this violence.