Faith and Ballots: Politicians seek support from religious sects ahead of polls nyoooz.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nyoooz.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
As the Lok Sabha elections draw nearer in Punjab, Haryana, and Chandigarh, the political landscape is witnessing a significant shift with major parties turning their attention towards religious sects to garner support. Be it the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), or the Aam Aadmi Party
Over decades, especially during the terror movement in Punjab, BKI has been repsonsible for hundreds of killings of innocent people and government officials, but its most heinous act of terror was the bombing of an Air India flight over the Atlantic Ocean in 1985 with 329 people on board, most of them Canadians.
There are a numbers of Deras in Punjab. According to a study of 2006-2007, done by Ronki Ram, there were more than 9,000 Sikh and non-Sikh deras in the rural areas of Punjab. The distinguished nature of Deras in Punjab, established during the 19 century is that they acted as centres of dalit mobilization because the majority of the followers of these deras were people from