Who’s fooled by this breathtaking hypocrisy, I wonder. BJP/RSS lost many to militancy and terror. BJP backed Op Bluestar. It’s known that Deoras’s RSS silently backed Rajiv Gandhi in Dec 1984 polls ‘in the national interest.’ This dangerously undermines mainstream forces in Sikh politics
Every party that has wanted to make a mark in recent times in Punjab has followed this casual flirtation and trope, then realised it wasn’t necessary and rather irrelevant - which tells you how much they know about Punjab. But the damage is done, and the courageous choices of Punjabis who stood up against extremism and separatism that ought to be celebrated are not.