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There is no active insurgency in Punjab today, but the Khalistan movement still has some supporters in the state, as well as in the sizable Sikh diaspora beyond India.
Politics in reorganised present-day Punjab is dominated by mainly three parties – Indian National Congress, Aam Aadmi Party and Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal). [1] [2] Since 1967, Chief Minister of Punjab has been predominantly from Jat Sikh community despite its 21 percent state population.
Jat Sikh or Jatt Sikh (Gurmukhi: ਜੱਟ ਸਿੱਖ) is an ethnoreligious group, a subgroup of the Jat people whose traditional religion is Sikhism, originating from the Indian subcontinent. They are one of the dominant communities in the Punjab, India , owing to their large land holdings. [ 2 ]
Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), which was banned in India in 2019, intends to conduct the referendum in Punjab and major cities worldwide. The Indian government has accused Canada of permitting extremists to carry out activities that are "deeply objectionable" and "politically motivated," which pose a threat to India's integrity.
The U.S. and Canada have alleged Indian agents were involved in assassination plots in their countries last year against campaigners for 'Khalistan', a Sikh homeland they want carved out of India ...
One such future outgrowth, the Haryana Lok Samiti, characterized the struggle as a "dharam yudh, a battle with Sikhs," and a "war between dharam and adharam (righteousness and unrighteousness), between Hindi and Punjabi, between Haryana and Sikhistan," [101] refused to learn Gurmukhi as Hindi was "the national language," vowed to "fight against ...
Bhagwant Mann, [63] Chief Minister of Punjab; Chaudhary Bharat Singh [64] [65] former Member of Parliament and Congress leader from Delhi; Bhupinder Singh Hooda, [66] former Chief Minister of Haryana; Charan Singh, the sixth Prime Minister of India [67] Chhotu Ram, [68] co-founder of Unionist party and a Jat leader of the colonial era
He is the chief spokesperson of Aam Aadmi Party for Punjab. [2] Birth. Sardar Malwinder Singh was born in Village Kang in a Kang Jatt Sikh family. [further ...