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Struggle for survival

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Published on October 30, 2015 with 10 Comments

Punjab is witnessing protests of unprecedented type. The public is on the streets and there appears to be little or no effort from the Punjab government to restore peace and harmony in the state despite police bullets being responsible for death of two of the protesters and score of others lying injured.

The sudden decision of the Sikh clergy to concede pardon to the Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh on September 24 is the trigger point for the current agitation in Punjab. Sikhs and Punjabis all around the world have seen through the trick that the abrupt pardon to the Dera head accused of blasphemy by imitating the tenth Sikh guru Shri Guru Gobind Singh has come at the behest of the ruling clan in Punjab. The move is being seen as an attempt by the ruling Shriomani Akali Dal (SAD) led by Sukhbir Badal under the patronage of his father Chief Minister of Punjab Parkash Singh Badal to mend fences with the influential Dera on the run up to the Assembly election due in February 2017.

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The pardon was granted by the Sikh clergy appointed by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC). Soon this was followed by a spate of incidents of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib at a number of places in Punjab, shortly after the grant of pardon with an attempt to point an accusing finger for certain additional political gains. While the authorities are trying to unearth the miscreants, such incidents of desecration came as a stark reminder of similar attempts during the times of militancy in 80s.

Then also the leaders of SAD then known as Akali Dal had played the cards to their advantage. The state was recovering through the turmoil of partition of 1947, beginning to reap the benefits of green revolution and attempting to recover from the newly announced recruit able male population policy that limited the intake of Sikhs in the Indian Army. A disaster struck in the form of the Anandpur Sahib resolution, adopted by the working committee of the Akali Dal in October 1973.It ushered the foundation of sectarian violence that claimed more than 20,000 lives over the next two decades with Operation Blue Star alone accounting for close to 3000 lives lost in Golden Temple, when the Congress Party that was ruling India used Indian Army to clear the Golden Temple. During those hard times, the Akali Leadership took a back seat. In the assembly elections of 1997, the Akali-BJP alliance came to power. Since then the Anandpur Sahib resolution has never been discussed. Certain broader aspects of the resolution represented a real solution to demands of Punjab, such as a larger share of water for irrigation and the return of Chandigarh to Punjab.

Since 1997, SAD has been in power thrice. The Badal government has failed miserably to lift Punjab from socio-economic mess that it had sunk into. In last eight years of rule, no industry worth the name, a non-existent service sector, diminishing return from agriculture; only forced Punjabis to look for better pasture. Industry moved out to neighboring Himachal and far away Gujarat and the common man immigrated to other countries in large numbers by adopting means of all kinds. Despite preachers advocating abstinence, Punjab soon moved from the drinking culture to addiction of opium and even synthetic drugs. The government faces allegations that the ruling party has a role to play in the supply of these drugs. Perhaps it suits the political parties to have the voters totally dependent upon them.  Public Transport and cable industry has moved from the state to the ruling clan, resulting in more frustration for the job seekers.

Having failed on all the ground, it was natural for the Badal led SAD to fall back on their most cherished and crowd pulling agenda –the” panth”-the religion. This time around the common man refused to get drawn into to the sinister plans of SAD .A section took to social networking sites to spread messages to maintain clam, to expose the lies of the ruling party over the police firing. Soon the protesters were joined by farmers, teachers and employees who had been protesting against the state government. Faced by unprecedented criticisms from Sikhs and finding the situation going out of Control the Sikh clergy in an unprecedented step revoked its own decision on grant of pardon to the Dera chief, making it obvious that a lot in the state has been happening at the behest of the government and the SAD.

While the common man has taken a moral stand, the political parties have joined the bandwagon to make the best of the opportunity. Congress known for its infighting in Punjab, has suddenly taken a call to fight the SAD. Never to let a political opportunity pass, Arvind Kejriwal led AAP joined in “sharing its concern” with the Punjabis. A section of community has now raised the demand to get the SGPC that manages the gurudwaras out of the control of the ruling clan.

From the most prosperous state of India, Punjab is now the weakest of all. However, the government tends to manoeuvre through various figures to present a brighter picture.

SAD was never ever on such a slippery ground. Congress has hit its lowest ebb and would try to seek its revival through Punjab, only if the state leadership could leave their infighting.  AAP is looking at forthcoming assembly elections in Punjab as an opportunity to prove that victory in Delhi was not a fluke, but is without a dedicated party cadre in Punjab.

None of the parties are in a position to influence the voters to their advantage, and are hell bend on treating the recent events as a launch pad for their issues. The events have given the parties enough to survive and some of them are now engrossed in recreating some to leave a mark and make better prospects for the assembly elections. For the voters three parties are almost alike with no real concern for the issues of the state and that makes them equally vulnerable to the mood of the voters.

From the survival of the fittest, the present situation in Punjab is that of struggle of the weakest.

 

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