Bangalore: Sikhs, the bravest warriors, the greatest defenders of India’s unity and Integrity who fought and died for the country in every war since “Independence”. have been complaining of humiliation and persecution. Their hollest shrine at Amritsar was subjected to military attack. Hurt and humiliated by the Brahminical social order, Sant Bhindranwale declared that Sikhs are a separate “nation”. The ruling class failed to stop Its aggression against this tiny 2% of India’s population and this forced the Sikhs to be on war-path. Despite facing so much of persecution and humiliation they have not been able to put up a joint fight against this ruling class. They could not forge a united battle against their oppressors. Sant Bhindranwale was the first person to identify the oppressors and unite the whole Sikhs to declare a war against the ruling class. But the oppressors quickly realized the danger posed by the Sant and he was instantly finished in the “Blue Star”. Ever since the death of the Sant, who is today a cult figure in Punjab, the Sikhs have been leaderless. The arrest of Simranjit Singh Mann, an IPS officer, his torture in the jail and his subsequent election as MP and his party sweeping the Parliament elections, made him fill up this leadership gap. As an intellectual he could come up to the level of the Sant. But ever since Mann emerged as the undisputed leader of Punjab, the upper castes forces – Brahmin, Banla, Khatri – In Punjab and outside have been trying to destroy his career by engineering all sorts of dissensions. Even a MP belonging to his party was murdered by pushing him into a canal. Sikh dissensions are partly creations of the upper caste forces and their fatt press. But when every Sikh knows these tricks of the oppressors, they should have stood united against the oppressors. But this did not happen. Whether this so-called “Sikh disunity” was a fact or not we are not in a position to say because we have no other source of information. except the very same upper caste “national” napkin papers which are doing everything to discredit the Sikhs. So, in the midst of this all-round gloom the latest developments Inside Punjab leading to Sikh unity are a happy news.

