Highlights
There is a continuous demand for a separate nation Khalistan for Sikhs under the guise of farmers movement.
But now a Khalistani organization named Sikhs For Justice has started work on its new plan for West Bengal and Maharashtra.
This organization operates from the US and the name of the person running it is Gurpatwant Singh Pannu.
In DNA on Tuesday, Zee News Editor-in-Chief Sudhir Chaudhary analyses the expansionist idea of the Tukde Tukde gang, whose purpose is to destroy the constitutional structure of India, and this gang has also started talking about breaking up West Bengal and Maharashtra with Khalistan. In simple words, the goals of this gang are now taking a new form of expansionism and it has started sprouting ideas of separatism on the soil of West Bengal and Maharashtra as well.
Singhu: Farmers say no trust in police post clash, self-guard site
Sun, Jan 31 2021 10:23:44 PM
New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS): Farmers have amplified their internal security at Singhu border protest site following the fresh incident of violence on Friday. Vigil at checkpoints and interrogation of any unfamiliar face has been increased to prevent any untoward incident which they are anticipating.
Naujawan Bharat Sabha President Rupinder Singh said that youth wings of the farmers unions have been told to guard the protest site and not let any suspicious person infiltrate the area.
The youth are patrolling the perimeter of the protest site in groups. Mahendar Pal Singh from the Ganna Sangharsh committee, Hoshiarpur, who was leading one such group, told IANS that young farmers are keeping vigil round the clock in shifts.
Behind Bhagat Singh chants at farmersâ protest, a century-old Left tradition in Punjab
While the Left might look irrelevant in Punjabâs electoral politics today, the state has had a long Left tradition. Its genesis can be traced to the Ghadar movement.
Chitleen K Sethi 29 January, 2021 12:11 pm IST Text Size:
Chandigarh: âBhagat Singh
teri soch te⦠pehra diyaange thok ke⦠(Bhagat Singh, we will bravely guard your legacy)â.
Nearly 100 years after freedom fighter Bhagat Singhâs execution in 1931, chants invoking his name and legacy resonated during the farmersâ agitation in Delhi.
So, what is this Bhagat Singh connection to the Punjab farmersâ protest against the Modi governmentâs three farm laws? For one, this movement reminds political observers of the â
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Avijit Ghosh is a associate editor with The Times of India. He is addicted to films, music, cricket and football and not necessarily in that order. He is the author of Bandicoots in the Moonlight, Cinema Bhojpuri, 40 Retakes, and now, Up Campus, Down Campus, a novel set in 1980s JNU. He tweets from the handles @avijitghoshtoi and @cinemawaleghosh LESS. MORE
Mridula Mukherjee taught modern history at JNU. Her area of expertise includes peasant struggles in India and agrarian movements in Punjab. In an email interview with