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Sikhs don't want a separate state. Khalistan is just a word to prove your coolness, nothing else. People say it, they post the stickers, get tattoos, but when you ask them, they don't know what it is.
I am yet to see a person who wants Khalistan, and I am a sikh myself.
Only people who want it are Pakistani Sikhs, Canadian Sikhs, and UK sikhs.
I admit that Pakistani Sikhs, Canadian Sikhs and British Sikhs are the primary supporters of the Khalistan ideal however I would not go as far to say it has absolutely no support in Indian Punjab at all. There are times when so called 'terrorists' favouring Khalistan independence are captured from parts of India.
Of course I must admit I cannot argue with a Sardar himself and say he is totally wrong about his own race. But I just don't think the Khalistan movement is a dead movement just yet. And truth is those Canadian, British and some of the Pakistani Sikhs (some moved after 1984 to Pakistan) did originally come from India so they are originally Indian and want independence for their Punjab. Just because they have taken foreign citizenship doesn't mean the issue can totally be ignored and you can call them foreigners.
For example many of us Pakistanis on PDF are living abroad (like Indians), them leaving India or Pakistan does not mean they do not exist or what they do does not matter. They can still influence local opinion. So I wouldn't go so far as to count the Khalistan movement as dead.
Till then notice how every year the Khalistan issue pops up. If its in the news, its happening baby.
Cops want trial of militant via video-link
Citing intelligence inputs that there will be attempts to free him if he is taken out, the Special Cell of Delhi Police has asked a Ludhiana court to allow court proceedings against a Khalistan Liberation Force militant through video conferencing.
Daya Singh Lahoria (50), who is currently lodged in Tihar jail, was extradited from the US in January 1997. He is to be produced before the district and sessions judge SP Bangarh in Ludhiana.
The Special Cell of Delhi Police said it has received inputs from central intelligence agencies that sympathisers of pro-Khalistan groups would try to free him while he is being taken for appearance in the Ludhiana court.
Lahoria was sentenced to life by a Jaipur court in 2004 for abducting the son of senior Congress leader Ram Niwas Mirdha. Lahoria and two others had abducted Rajendra Mirdha while he was on morning walk to put pressure on the then Narasimha Rao government for the release of KLF terrorist Devendra Pal Singh Bhullar, who is on death row, in 1994.
In 2007, the Special Cell arrested four Babbar Khalsa International militants and made Lahoria a co-accused in the case. Baljit Singh, one of the four accused, told police that he met Lahoria when he was lodged in Nabha Jail in Punjab.
“He has militancy related cases registered against him in Punjab and needs to be taken to Ludhiana court for proceedings. We have inputs that there will be efforts to attack the police convoy and set him free. He has serious charges against him so we have decided to initiate the proceedings through video conferencing,” said a senior police officer.
“He has been booked by the Special Cell for waging war against the state. He was arrested as a co-conspirator in the case. Apart from Delhi he has cases registered against him in Kolkata and Punjab,” said Vikas Padora, Lahoriya’s counsel.
Cops want trial of militant via video-link - Indian Express