Sikhs: Discriminated nation since independence of India

Sikhs have long faced discrimination at the hands of the Indian Government.  Regardless of which party is in power, Sikhs, along with other minority communities have been oppressed. 

Sikhs labeled as threat to India. Feeling alienated within India, the Sikh community put forward a resolution to address all grievances they had with the nation state of India. In 1972, the Sikhs put forward the Anandpur Sahib Resolution. Within this resolution were issues included both religious and political concerns. From easy issues of recognizing Sikhism as a religion, to stopping the discriminatory policy of not hiring Sikhs into the army, to allowing all states within India to set local state level policies and not be forced to get permission from the central government. India refused all resolutions and started to portray Sikhs as secessionists who wished to break apart India. The government controlled media propagated to the rest of India how Sikhs would eventually demand independence, which would result in India disintegrating as nation state. As the Sikhs continued their peaceful demonstrations during the 1970s, an environment of hatred was created by the Indian government to the point where the average Indian believed Sikhs were criminal traitors who wished to destroy India. The Sikhs were no longer equal human beings; they were a barbaric, subhuman threat to India.

Sikhs Labeled as Criminals. In 1947, under the direction of Prime Minister Nehru, Chandu Lal Trivedi had issued a directive to all Commissioners in Punjab to the effect that the ‘Sikhs in general must be treated as a criminal tribe. Harsh treatment must be meted out to them to the extent of shooting them so that they wake up to political realities. It has been confirmed that such a directive was issued to all the D.C.s of Punjab by Home Secretary Policy letter on October 10th, 1947.

This all depicts that Sikhs are being discriminated by the Indian government and people. They just hate Sikhs. They don’t want them to be the part of their nation. So much hatred lies in their heart for Sikhs.

Discrimination Of Sikhs In India

India who depicts itself the most democratic country in the world does not give the rights to the minorities of their country. Muslims are not given their rights. Sikhs who are the part of the Hindu nation are also get discriminated by the Indian government. Sikhs are not being given their full rights. They are considered as the minorities. In this case, Indian Supreme court must take some action on this for protecting the rights of Sikhs but SC is quiet on this matter.

Recent incident happened that a Karan singh, the waiter of a hotel was killed for delay in serving tandoori chicken to the customers. According to the Navghar police, the incident took place over a delay on part of the owner of a dhaba in Mulund (E) in serving a meal of tandoori chicken and eight rotis ordered by the BMC employees. The four assailants are drivers on the BMC's rolls, who had come to the Mulund dumping ground to drop off collected garbage.

This hows the discriminatory behavior of indian people with the Sikhs. Sikh must be given full rights so that they can live easily on their homeland. Indian Supreme court must take an action on this and give full surety to Sikhs that they will be given full rights.

Indian Government against Sikhs in India

Sikhs are again being disgraced by Indian politicians and Indian people. Surjeet Singh who was released by Pakistan some days ago, confesses that he came to Pakistan for spying as a Raw agent. He came to serve for his country and look what Indian did with him. They totally refused that they had sent Surjeet to Pakistan. The other thing which Surjeet revealed was that he was not expecting that Indian government would forget him when he was caught in Pakistan in 1989. This shows that Indian government is not giving all the rights to Sikhs in India. They disown them, totally disown. They don’t consider Sikhs as a part of their nation. This all story shows the India’s behavior with the Sikhs in their country. They are totally rejecting them. Minorities should have the rights. They should give them their rights.