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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 ]
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
Earlier this year, Sikh protesters pulled down the Indian flag at the country’s high commission in London and smashed the building’s window in a show of anger against the move to arrest ...
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 ...
The officials briefed a group of Sikh advocates about the government's ongoing conversations with India in a closed-door meeting organized by the National Security Council, according to the attendees.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Political party: Aam Aadmi Party: ... Sardar Malwinder Singh was born in Village Kang in a Kang Jatt Sikh ...
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 ...