Amritpal Singh manage to dig in to spearhead independent punjab national movement but pro- govt voices out to link The Khalistan movement with Saad Bajwa, the son of Pakistan ex-Army Chief living in Dubai and Bollywood. One of the such leading voices is Major (rt) Gaurav #AmpritpalSingh #Punjab #India

To take refuge in one contradiction in order to avoid the real contradictions is neither a good political behavior nor it would ever serve the real purpose in any given society. The partition of India to solve its contradiction as two states' solutions create more deep contradictions and perceived fears in the polity of the sub-continent of India. 

People have evolved together through social intercourse because of their land in Punjab, Pashtun, and Bengal for thousands of years but with the politics of hate and backward thinking, Punjab and Bengal divided on the basis of their religion but as time passed, the nationalist sentiments of Bengali, Punjabi started emerging.   but they had been divided by creating religious hate. The nationalist movement of Punjab or the Khalistan movement is the same thing that continues to evoke a level of sympathy among some Punjabi Sikhs, particularly in Canada, the UK, and Australia.

The battle between the forces of Jarmal Singh Bhindranwale and Indian forces in the Golden temple, the holiest shrine of the Sikh religion in 1984 exposed the Indian political setting between its Unition and States. The Khalistan movement because of its militancy, is outlawed in India perceived to be a grave national security threat, and a number of groups associated with the movement are listed as "terrorist organizations" under India's Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

The police in Punjab tried to arrest Amritpal Singh attracting a reaction from all across the world by the Punjabi diaspora especially the Sikh community. As media reported, some protests became violent in front of the Indian High Commission in London and the Indian consulate in San Francisco the United States.  

We know that in Canada, the US, Australia, and the UK a sizeable number of Sikh communities, many of whom left Punjab following Independence in search of better economic opportunities.

"A small but influential number of those Sikhs support the idea of Khalistan, with referendums periodically held to reach a consensus to establish a separate homeland within India" CNN reported.

I meet with Jagjit Singh Chohan while he was leaving in London, the former Finance Minister of Punjab in the 1960s, emerged as the founder of the Khalistan movement, the demand for a separate Khalistan reached its peak during the 1980s after originating in the 1970s. Jagjit Singh initiated (Nankana Sahib, 1971) the setting up of a Sikh government in Pakistan and subsequently visited the United States, and collected millions of dollars there for forming Khalistan. He supported Jarmal Singh Bhindranwale, leader of the 1984 militancy in Golden temple. India always alleged that Bhindranwale's violent campaign, supported by the Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence, ISI, posed national security threats to India in the 1980s.

The problem with India's democracy is that in any working democracy, the window for the right to self-determination never closes. The parties have all sorts of ideologies, as long as they don't indulge in violation of basic human rights, hate preaching, violence, or discriminatory politics, they are allowed to take part in elections even those parties which want an independent state. This is how democracies work. If a party campaign for independence got more than 50% of the vote, there must be a referendum between pro and anti-independent aspirations. 

India keeps running away in Jammu and Kashmir too under one pretext or another rather to allow the masses to express their free will but the result we had witnessed, a society known for peace-loving and democratic culture become overnight violent where bloodshed spilled on both sides of the contesting divides.

In my opinion, once again the government of India is trying to hide behind the alleged allegations against Pakistan, its secret service, the United Kingdom, or the USA, but the fact is that the problem lies in India not in Pakistan, the UK, the USA, or Canada. 

Punjabi of both countries must have opportunities to share their life in every aspect of socio-cultural, and socio-economic because they uphold a culture of thousands of years by living together. 

If there is an open window in both countries, allowing parties those spearhead for an independent homeland, the majority would not go for it. Today we are not living in a nation-states system but in a state and citizenship. The Indian union, means different nations of the Indian subcontinent sharing their sovereignty at the union level and the same is the case for Pakistan where many nations are sharing their sovereignty at the federation level, settled through constitutional arrangement.

To criticize Bollywood or Punjabi artists living abroad doesn't solve the problem. The song of Kanwar Singh Grewal “Pecha Pa Gai Hai Central Nal” is even a minimum come under freedom of speech for any working democracy. The marriage doesn’t work with a fearful husband that his wife would choose someone else.

The democratic system is the best system human societies had ever invented.  In China, though they have a single-party system yet, it is working and there are many autonomous regions such as Tibet, and Xinjiang. Taiwan is another example, one China policy, very well managed, and also the case of Hong Kong, two systems, one state.  

Their single-party type democracy is working and I had researched myself to know the facts on the ground, and it was news for me to see that Islam in China is freer even compare to Pakistan or India in spite of the western propaganda.