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On 31 October 2021, about 30,000 Sikhs took part in the first phase of the Khalistan referendum in London. [9] [1] A similar referendum was held in London in November 2021 with campaigners claiming that some 10,000 people participated. [10]
In a remarkable display of democratic aspirations, an estimated 40,000 Sikh Americans lined up around the state Capitol on Sunday to enter a tent and cast a vote for independence.
First-page of the original, handwritten draft of the Anandpur Sahib Resolution (1973). Authored by Sardar Kapur Singh in his own hand. After the tenure of Chief Minister Gurnam Singh in the Punjab, which was newly demarcated in 1966, the SAD captured only one seat at the elections to the Indian Parliament in 1971 from Punjab's 13 seats.
Founded in 2009 by lawyer Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the organization emerged in response to the lack of legal action to convict those responsible for the killings and massacres of Sikhs following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards in 1984. Sikhs for Justice was banned in India in 2019 as an unlawful association.
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Sikh historian Harjot Singh Oberoi argues that, despite the historical linkages between Sikhs and Punjab, territory has never been a major element of Sikh self-definition. He makes the case that the attachment of Punjab with Sikhism is a recent phenomenon, stemming from the 1940s. [ 35 ]
Sarbat Khalsa (lit. meaning all the Khalsa; Punjabi: ਸਰਬੱਤ ਖ਼ਾਲਸਾ pronunciation: [sǝɾbǝt̪t̪ kʰäːlsäː]), [1] was a biannual deliberative assembly (on the same lines as a Parliament in a Direct democracy) of the Sikhs held at Amritsar in Punjab during the 18th century. [2]
The Sikh population, after the partition of Punjab, had become a majority population in a contiguous, strategic land area for the first time in its history, [23] [24]: 369 with a new socio-political position, [6] [19] This enabled the Akali Dal to focus on expressing unencumbered Sikh political needs, free from the politics of the former Muslim ...