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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 Punjab, India , owing to their large land holdings. [ 2 ]
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.
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) (translation: Supreme Eternal Party [19]) is a centre-right Sikh-centric state political party in Punjab, India. The party is the second-oldest in India, after Congress, being founded in 1920. [20] [21] [22] Although there are many parties with the description Akali Dal, the party that is recognized as "Shiromani ...
The Punjab Police had a majority of Jat Sikhs and the conflict was referred as "Jat against Jat" by Police Chief Gill. [17] Moderate factions of Akali Dal led by Prakash Singh Badal reclaimed the political positions in the state through all three assembly (namely parliamentary) and SGPC elections. The dominance of traditional political parties ...
Mostly all of the world's Sikh population are Punjabis. [5] Punjabi Sikhs primarily inhabit the Indian state of Punjab, the only Sikh-majority administrative division on Earth. Punjabi Sikhs make up 57.69% of the state’s population. [6] Many have ancestry from the greater Punjab region, an area that was partitioned between India and Pakistan in
The CRPF, a central paramilitary police force, had been deployed in Punjab during President's rule as an alternative to the Punjab Police, who due to its mostly Jatt Sikh composition were seen with apprehension by the central government, which imposed a recruitment ban on it for a time. CRPF troops first fired on the Golden Temple in February ...
The Sikh population, after the partition of Punjab, had become a majority population in a contiguous, strategic land area for the first time in its history, [23] [24]: 369 with a new socio-political position, [6] [19] This enabled the Akali Dal to focus on expressing unencumbered Sikh political needs, free from the politics of the former Muslim ...
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, fifth Prime Minister of India and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh [67] Chhotu Ram, [68] co-founder of Unionist party and a Jat ...