I have started this writing
based on no assumption. Before I can convince even myself that we Sikhs need
independent nation, I need some answers of my own questions. I have tried to
get the answers on my own by searching the information from the internet.
WHAT
IS AN INDEPENDENT SIKH NATION?
As a simple common Sikh man,
I understand that the independent Sikh nation is primarily meant to be nation
where majority of the Sikhs resides and can progress on social, economic &
religious emotions in good democratic manner based on Sikh philosophy. Also
Punjabi Hindus & Muslims in malerkotla can live peacefully in this nation.
DID
THE PRESENT SECULAR STATE OF INDIA PREVENT SIKHS FROM PROGRESSING ON SOCIAL,
ECONOMIC, RELIGIOUS & EMOTIONAL FRONT?
As a naïve Sikh man, I
initially thought in general, it seems no body stops us from making progress on
economic front. Also religion wise, no body stop us to make gurduwara and
worship wahaguru However I did make search to understand how far our Punjab
have make progress after independence in 1947 by being part of INDIA?
I will try to put following
points to point out, we would have been better of with independent land locked
KhaIistan.
1) Despite giving so much to
India in terms of foodgrains, pricing of the grains are not in our control. No
canal system is in proper place for the land cultivation. Most of the water
taken is out of ground that is going down very fast now & is toxic in
nature! It may not remain for more than 10-15 years. An economic problem will
even start on greater foot on our land & people.
Govt. of India never allowed
our Punjab farmers to sell crops at highest value. No concrete infrastructure
is in place to help farmers. Most of the time it is Hindu middle men whose
mercy our Sikh farmer brothers depend on.
2) Neighboring states of
Punjab are allowed to get most of the water for free. As an independent nation
we can sell this water. History shows all water rich countries make lot of
economic benefit from this (ex Argentina).
3) In a long run, for any
region to sustain and grow faster in fast changing world, education is the key.
It is the service industry that makes countries rich. Example: Japan, Israel
& most of the western world. No money is being spent on education and
relevant industrial because our area is near to Pakistan. No major MNC come to
Punjab to set up high technology industry. Had we had our independent nation,
this would not be the case. Make normal relationship among neighborhood with
respect. Any company that wants to take advantage of retailing in Khalistan can
be forced to setup R&D centers. But we cannot force this opening of R&D
center in Punjab as most of the industry then tends to go close to Delhi and
further south. With 13 MPs, Punjab is hardly in position to make such
negotiations.
4) And what is our youth
doing in the absence of no concrete service and manufacture industry? Well,
going for drugs. Why? That’s what congress & other corrupt political
parties give them to take votes. When elections come (local, state, national),
it is drugs, liquor etc in free flow. Khalistan will never allow drugs. Many
countries like Taiwan, Malaysia and Thailand have death sentence for such
usage. Guess what, they have successfully controlled the potent death habit
among their youths. But our secular India will never allow such rule to place
in Punjab. So merry goes on. In fact congress pseudo Hindus would like our race
to die. After all, that’s what national Hindu leader Mr. Balram Jahaar says '
To preserve the unity of India, if we have to eradicate 2-kror [ 20 million ]
Sikhs, we will do so. (Balram Jhakhar, a colleague of P.V. Narsimharao, the
former Indian Prime Minister, now Governor of Madhya Pardesh)
5) Recently, all
universities in Punjab request for fund allocation. UGC is not giving enough
funds to Punjab’s universities despite Punjab contributing too much in center
tax revenue and food grain contribution. Check such news in local Tribune
newspapers
So in brief, a water rich fertile
land nation with good business skill can easily be self-sufficient
economically. Any gas pipelines royalties are extra money. Money spent on
education to make service oriented industry is what will make Khalistan a truly
developed nation. With 10% Sikhs (20lakh) living abroad in already developed
world, business contacts in moving forward along developed world is not an
issue. We are indeed better off as landlocked small country than being part of
India. (I welcome people to prove me wrong on my points above listed on
economic, social front)
HOW
TO GAIN INDEPENDENCE FOR SIKH NATION
The trillion dollar question
is as how to get independence. Let’s study new countries that have gained
independence in last 2 decades. Why only last 2 decades? Because world is keep
changing fast. And we should learn how a nation creation is possible in current
global political setup.
BIG
NATIONS BREAKUP (PASSIVE POLICY)
Since 1990, 32 new countries
have been created. Majority of them are created by break down of USSR & Yugoslavia.
Certainly, the way these countries gain independence is not by individual
effort but because of the collective failure of big nations as a whole. For us
to follow this model means: We have to wait the day India breaks down.
1) May be because of Hindu-Muslim
tensions.
2) May be because of social disorder
(naxalites), reservation problems (gujjers).
3) Or may be because of
north –south divide in economic disparity.
The FIRST reason does not
seem will work. Muslims who do not want to live in India have already moved out
& whatever remains need not have strong race strength. Also they are not in
majority except in Kashmir valley. Just a pocket of Hyderabad and UP (meerut
etc) are no real danger for breaking India. Kashmir seems to have tamed with no
much external support coming. Also Muslims got bad name worldwide.
The SECOND reason of
naxalites also may not be good reason to believe. Since these people do not
have international recognition. Beside they are against the idea of capitalism.
South America in recent times has nations who get what we say left people win
via democratic means. They come close to what I am trying to saying but again
with little international support & no clear defined boundaries. The
disturbance by such people will do just social riots. In our context of
creating Khalistan, this still may not come handy. (Except Indian security
forces resources are being used to handle/contain them)
The THIRD thought of
north-south divide should be the most promising of the three options. As of
now, all south states (AP, Karnatka, Tamil naidu) doing great in economic
power. While Bihar, UP, Madhya Pardesh) are doing very poor.
The only north region which
is giving any fighting chance is DELHI AREA against the south. So in long run
of 15-20 years if this trend continues, the Southern states will be more
assertive of their independent authority. The most promising one is the Tamil
Nadu with anti-Hindi Dravidian parties like DMK MDMK etc. Their assertiveness
also defined by LTTE success in sri lanka.
Until a Tamil state is not
created in Sri Lanka,. Their own self confidence may be low about getting Tamil
ELEAM in India as of now.
Note: Just a note to sangat,
you can see how strong LTTE with is own aircrafts and committed squads of naval
& army. Still they are not able to gain independence despite having
northern controlled areas. REASON? NO major world power is ready to recognize
it, including India & permanent members of the Security Council. So it is
very important that we gain acceptance from Security Council, a moral support
of our cause. Thus, not only recognition from the world will come but also the
peacekeeping forces come handy from UN to start the national building process
when our dream comes true.
So in brief the above
discussed approach talked about, following a Wait & Watch policy. I am not
sure how many people would like this approach. But this is certainly one of the
passive possibilities. Let’s discuss other model of way nations gain
independence by active struggle in recent times.
SMALLER
PART GETTING INDEPENDENCE FROM BIGGER PART (PROACTIVE POLICY):
Of all the recent nations
gaining independence from bigger or majority, East Timor gaining independence
from Indonesia is the most prompt that I could search. In East Timor case, UN
from the beginning never recognized the Indonesia brutal occupation on East
Timor area. Thus when the time came of plebiscite, Timor people voted for
independence. Taking same argument in our case. A non-official plebiscite of
giving hardliner (Simranjeet Singh Maan) a power in Punjab elections will give
sufficient indication to UN that people of Punjab do want independence. A UN
understanding is must. Luckily India is not permanent member of Security
Council. That still gives us possibility to break easily under this model of
proactive.
New nation (East Timor),
however, did pay a price of independence from Indonesia with destruction of its
infrastructure. So, a word of caution to Sikh brothers. We may have to pay a
similar price if not play our cards carefully.
BUT, a proactive policy
comes with revolution. As we have seen in recent events in Punjab, people are
not ready for revolution. There is no point in blaming in badal govt. Badal
govt have people support. It is only last 10 years before they have seen the
bad days of terrorism or Sikh fight as our brothers will like to call. That
moment got directionless with no strong leadership. And also Ak-47 or swords
are good for nothing against Indian army. So what to do? Give up arms and cry
like baby with no clear cut solution in sight? No brothers, there is always is
solution of every problem. It is question of how we will understand and act
upon it.
One should understand the
psychology of people in general. Everyone in this world fears from revolution.
Since revolution brings changes and people in general do not like changes in
their ambient area. In recent times during French elections, the present
president talked about cuts in subsidy & doing more work. Many or majority
of people voted against him because of the fear rather than optimism of
opposite candidate. In our case, revolution will come only when our water level
in Punjab goes down so much so that it becomes nearly impossible for people to
survive. I hope it comes earlier lest it is too late.
With no proper channels in
place, letting all water flow to neighboring Hindu dominated Haryana and
Rajisthan, our Punjab will soon be dry land in next 15 years if similar
situation remains. That will be too late. So, what to do? We need to start
evolution approach to gain independence rather than a straight revolution
approach. Of course, independence will only come with revolution. But to get
into stage of revolution we need to do our homework proper by means of
evolution.
WHAT
IS THE MEANING of EVOLUTION? WHAT WE CAN DO TO MAKE IT WORK
I will try best to answer
this question with example in technology area. Take the example of Finance
package system in banks. Anyone in IT industry knows many components make a
package as usable package. If one day we decide oh common all system is crap.
It is not delivering what we want. Make changes in design and code all
together. What will happen? It will fail. People dealing with package will cry
& system as a whole will fail.
Same thing happens with
revolution approach done for independence in early 80s. Sant Bhindranwale Ji
did initiate and make point across Sikh community that there is need to have
independent state for Sikhs. Nobody disputes that since under present system,
Sikhs were losing their social, economic and financial fronts.
When the flash point came in
1984 to make decisions, there was no clear game plan. The moment army attacked
golden temple, Sikh peasants simply made emotional run towards Amritsar.
Result, army simply shot our unarmed Sikh brothers just like killing sitting
ducks. The Hindu soldiers enjoy this killing. So what should we do? Just get
angry. NO. Anger makes no result. We should learn the lessons. An unarmed crowd
is good for nothing.
1) EVOLUTION POINT 1: Our Sikh peasants should
get armed with govt. licensed guns; and even unauthorized guns if that be the
case but no need to use or show them. Keep for your own safely. Whatever
reasons, have arms and be ready.
2) EVOLUTION POINT 2:
Ex-servicemen should be ready to command the village army. DO this practice now
only. Times may come in 5 or 10 years. We have to be patient and wait for right
time.
All the Sikhs living outside
of Punjab in India should make point to have contact in Punjab either by having
second home purchase or business link setup. Or job of one of the family
members in Punjab. It is important to make run towards Punjab when situation
demands. What happened when 1984 massacre occurred? Many Sikhs became refugees
in Punjab. It did not help them in any way.
3) EVOLUTION POINT 3: Sikh
peasants should put pressure on Akali political leaders to make strong case for
more canal systems in Punjab. Ground water should be last AND not the first
option when looking for water in fields, drinking and other usage. So much
water is flowing to neighboring state. Water is still state subject. The
government cannot force us to send our water outside. So we can legally fight
our case to stop sending water outside. There is concept of river based
distribution across region. This is the smart Hindu move that results in too
much water going out of Punjab. A strong legal team & brains are required
to start reducing our outflow of water. A positive move is also required in our
community to help restore ground water level. Try restoring the present forest
land with trees. How small they be. Also ground water level restore systems can
be installed using govt. subsidy approach.
4) EVOLUTION POINT 4: Now
this evolution point goes to every Sikh, no matter whatever profession they are
in. DEMAND our separate Sikh civil code for marriages & property
distribution. This is very important to let international community know that
we are different from Hindus. Khalistan can never become a reality if we do not
have a separate identity. With time our future generations will get again
diluted with UP/BHIAR Hindus in future. We need to be separate now. Let civil
code be one of ways to do it.
5) EVOLUTION POINT 5: The
casteism in Sikhism is regrettable especially when our Guru Ji teaches us to
treat all equally. But I am not here to give lecture on what we should do to
erode it. That we can discuss someday later. It is important that in Punjab our
Sikh brothers who are low on economic and social scale should get reservation
status much more than low level Hindus. Simple, we want our Sikhs to succeed.
Every state in India makes reservation as per its local interest. We should use
this tool to our advantage. Also this will help us to get away from DERA
attacks on our panth. Let Hindu Muslim be parts of any DERA. We don’t care.
Also, it is not our problem. So make political demand of more reservations for
Sikhs.
6) EVOLUTION POINT 6: The
Sikhs living outside of India can play a very important role in making the Sikh
independent state a reality. I can see in news various organization are playing
a very active role by putting point across UNO, EU & other organization. A
win of Hillary Clinton as president of USA will be good for Sikhs with
Clinton’s close friendship with Chatwals. I am sure people abroad are very
active. The same momentum keeps going is all required.
7) EVOLUTION POINT 7: Our
Sikhs brothers should be part of Sikh regiment. They are to play major role
when revolution comes.
Well so far my evolution
points are up to common people level. Now how my point will reach to masses.
8) EVOLUTION POINT 8: All
computer nerds that are reading this article (Sikhs I mean) make point to
spread this word across our brothers to do what is needful as per their
situation as defined in the list above.
Also Sikh media is must have
for our words to spread across. Stations like Akash radio should try putting
more reach by moving towards air wave on Punjab soil.
If people propagate the
above points on evolution the Sikh Nation will become a reality. The list for
revolution points is not complete. There are many things that can be done while
living under law & keep pushing before making final push. Just making Badal
govt. to demand water & more reservation to economic less Sikhs in Punjab
will ensure our slow & right movement towards our goal. BOTH WATER &
RESERVATION are state power subjects.
EVOLUTION
TO REVOLUTION
This depends upon how soon
we are successful in getting our evolution points across. Time keeps passing
by. The HARDLINE in Akalis should able to gain power in next general election
i.e. in 4 year time. If that becomes possible the revolution stage can come
early.
WHAT
REVOLUTION ARE YOU TALKING? DID you SINCERELY THINK SIKHS can beat Indian army
& police?
It will be better if
India breaks from within. That will make efforts of our Sikh brothers easier.
But good military general experience leading a break away Sikh regiment army
can help us in fighting. Make point to use non-conventional warfare i.e.
biological weapons. Put such weapons spread on all roads leading to Punjab.
NOTE: Use such weapons only against fighting force NOT against population.
Otherwise the WORLD will turn against us. Since such weapons are not allowed to
be used. I am not talking about nuclear weapon. First, such weapon is out of
our reach. Second, using such weapon can back fire. What will small state like
Punjab do if our enemy uses the similar weapon? So the path is long and hard.
But with international support and evolution approach we can move on to
revolution stage.
