Sikhs will be always be loyal to the country they live in, that is without a doubt. Infact, in all conflicts, Sikh regiment has been at the forefront; from the Pakistani front, to Chinese front to even down south in Sri Lanka. It was the Sikh regiment who fought some of the most tight fougth battles.
That aside, yes there are genuine Sikh grievances against the Indian government. One of them is that the Indian constitution even refuses to recognize the Sikh religion. Article 25 of the constitution fails to provide Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains with their rightful religious identity. Sikhs are forced to get married under the "Hindu marriage Act", despite Sikhs demanding that discriminatory law be changed for the past 60 years. Even Pakistan has passed the Anand Karj Act which gives Sikhs their very important distinct identity. And than there are other grievances; such as branding of holy cities. Sikh parties have demanded that Amritsar be labelled a holy city and all alcohol and tobacco be banned from that city. Rather than doing this, there are government run thekas (alcohol selling places) right outside the Golden Temple!! If this is not provocation I don't know what is! And than there is the case of Hindu parties like RSS and BJP trying to re-write Sikh history. In the whole Indian media and Bollywood there is a propaganda war against Sardars, in order to ashame Sikhs of their identity and get them away from their religion.
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who had made this thread alive again?
