by Aravindan Neelakandan - Dec 14, 2020 01:44 PM
Sikh people watching the installation of the Baba Banda Singh Bahadurâs statue at Nabha House, the Wall of Truth memorial to the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and the museum at Bangla Sahib Gurdwara, in New Delhi. (Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
Snapshot
The Congress under Sonia Gandhi and family has ensured the partyâs further descent into the Nehruvian politics of divide and rule while Narendra Modi represents the polity guided by the values of the RSS.
What is being done today in the name of anti-farm reforms agitation also brings to the surface another undying dimension of the crafty politics played by Indira F Gandhi and her political think-tank cabal: pitting Sikhs against the non-Sikh Hindus, amplifying the fear psychosis latent in identity politics.