PUNJAB ELECTIONS
Bangalore: The just concluded elections to the State Assembly and Parliament in Punjab – after a lapse of about six years – have proved our oft-repeated claim that it is not the Hindu nazi party but the Congress that is the country’s chief brahminical party and hence the most dangerous. That is why the upper castes/Hindus of Punjab voted for the Congress and rejected the nazis who claim to be the real Hindu party. In fact, the nazi party leaders are so angry with their mother, Congress, that they too have joined the Sikhs and all the rest in the chorus of protest that the elections were rigged. But who bothers about these protests?
Be that as it may, the poor Sikhs have been once again deceived by the brahminical social order (BSO). They are deceived because they are willing to be deceived.
A stooge as CM: Their nearly ten-year-old war against the BSO has taught them nothing. They are nowhere nearer to their goal of self-determination. On the other hand, the cunning and crooked BSO has been always having the upper hand. Using the elections, it managed to put Hindus against Sikhs, Sikhs against Dalits and much more the Sikhs against Sikhs themselves. BSO has divided and sub-divided the people in Punjab by building permanent walls between them. An obedient Jat Sikh stooge has become the Chief Minister and the BSO will use him to further squeeze the Sikhs. A Jat Sikh police chief was used by the BSO to shoot down any rebellious Sikh (DV March 1 ’92 p.11: “Brahminism can’t be fought with guns”).
The Congress victory (meaning the Hindu victory) may be short-lived as the militants proved they have a big following. The Hindus might have “captured” the State Assembly using their usual brahminical strategy and tactics (DV edit Feb. 1, 92, but they did not capture the hearts of the people. But the heartless BSO does not care for the people or their hearts. What it wants is power to enslave the rest.
Gift of great religion: Will the Sikhs, who form about 61% of the Punjab population as per the 1991 census (about 30% are Dalits) learn a lesson at least now after the BSO helped promote such a sharp communal divide?
The amount of humiliation heaped upon Sikhs, the violence inflicted upon them, the discrimination they faced should have naturally disciplined the whole community and produced a tremendous upheaval among Sikhs, gifted as they are with a very revolutionary religion. Surely, Amrit should have come out of such a serious churning of the Sikh ocean. But we are sorry Sikhs are far from it. With all their wealth, skill, sacrifice, sincerity, valour and their proximity to Delhi, the seat of power, they are not able to inflict even a mosquito bite on the BSO.
Why Sikhs fail? A society is led by its intellectuals and intellectuals only. Not by money-bags, army generals or musclemen. This exactly is the problem with Sikhs. And that is why the Sikhs are not able to make use of such a liberating religion like Sikhism to liberate themselves from the yoke of brahminism. This is one of the greatest tragedies of India.
