Govt sources say after Amarinder briefed the Centre on Canadian politicians’ support for Khalistani separatists, it decided to fully support his stand.
Hostilities between the Punjab CM and ministers in Justin Trudeau’s cabinet regarding the Khalistani movement seems to have stopped any chance of a bromance.
This edition of 'Off The Cuff' saw Hon. Chief Minister of Punjab, Amarinder Singh in conversation with ThePrint Chairman & Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta and Associate Editor...
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Gupta Jee, Your surname says it all ……………….. you being a Sikh baiter is a fact even known to aliens.
How Moronic of you to pour your HIndutva feeling out in Open in garb of condemning Canadian PM. How about asking yourself few questions here :
1. Kanishka bombing was handwork of your own security agencies, you idiot.
2. What about your brothers killing 10000 Sikhs in the GENOCIDE, when your mother died . Which again was all planned months in advance and was code-named Operation Shanti ????
3. What about 1,00,000 Sikhs who were killed in COLD BLOOD by your dear Punjab Police ‘cos they couldn’t have time to identify and eliminate Separatist from normal Sikhs. So, they did what they know best ……. Just kill anybody with a flowing beard and ties a Turban. yeah ….. so you blood thirsty nation could be satisfied
4. What about your courts not pronouncing guilty any of the culprits who killed 1,50,000 Sikhs in 80’s – 90’s ????
You guys are so damn jealeous of our achivements …. you cant simply digest it …. You guys cant handle a fact that 5 Sikhs are Ministers are in a Cabinet of a Foreign country. You spineless lala’s are best dealt known to this country to spew venom against us from centuries and while my ancestors were fighting for a thankless country, your’s were readying hoarding of essntial items, so that they could sell it at a higher price later.
Have balls and publish this ……………. you brainless piece of shit !!!!!
Shekhar Gupta should pay heed to what Aditi Mahajan has written. It is Indians like her (I count myself amongst those Indians) that are instrumental in India’s progress. Mr Gupta and his ilk only know how to play political games. They don’t give a damn about what happens to Indians. Their only concern seems to be piece of land. Sad really.
The article is written badly . Defaming Sikhs . Very biased . The jounralist has not written truth , rather he has penned out thoughts of his own mind . See no body ever has written why idea of khalistan came into picture when sikhs refused to make khalistan , when offered in 1947 . Nobody ever thinks what happened to the most loyal community that they demanded for khalistan . Now any one dont say it was there greed . They have saved hinduism and India many times putting themselve in huge problems . So first about root cause . You will find politician always cheated punjab .
Indias eternal problem: we never punish the guilty. Not in Punjab, not in Gujarat. And then we wonder why ghosts keep rearing up. I understand sovereignty of India is sacrosanct, but saying that “everyone’s moved on” is such a joke. Keep living in that delusion. If India was so assured of being a “happy family happily ever after”, this writer would not bristle at every small Trudeau movement. It is a black mark on Congress, and BJP never had a good reputation on minorities issues to start with. It’s only the people of India – whatever religion – that are keeping this country together. Both the political parties have done their darnest to ruin lives based on religion. Don’t blame the Canadians. Look at your own jokers
This has to be the most biased article written in the favour of Indian Givernment. The majority of Sikhs respect and Love Trudeau and hate the RSS hindutva goons like Modi. There is no justice for Sikhs in India. Sikhs were killed in thousands in the 1984 genocide and the people responsible for their killings are multi millionaire and ministers in India. This Indian government is just jealous of the property of the Sikhs. If this was Gujarati cabinet ministers accompanying Trudeau, Modi would have been a tour guide for them the whole week.
I have lived in Punjab and outside of Punjab in India for 16 years and I know how Ill treated the Sikhs were by these Hindus.
This is a black mark on India on how they treated Trudeau and they will get a taste of their own medicine back when their diplomats or PM try to visit Canada.
Sikhs love Trudeau in Punjab and in Canada.
Ask anyone in Punjab. They live Canada more than India. The only reason they are scared to see they want KHalistan is because they are worried they will lose whatever they have and their children. Let them immigrate to Canada and then you will hear what they really think about this corrupt Indi where Hindus are running wild and crippling the rights of the minorities.
Cock and bull. Leave us alone. Tradu and his Sikhs belong to Canada. Do what u want there.
Is a seperate Punjab feasible at all?. What will be the contours of its geography in case it seperates. On its west it will have Pakistan and north it will have Pakistan occupied kashmir and without a sea coast. In these circumstances can a seperate Punjab state survive, the only way it will end up is as current state of Afganisthan. Therefore these Khalistan activivists should think how thier idea of a seperate state will be in reality. Hope sense will prevail.
Insensitive depiction made without analysing the actual reasons for the Punjab problem. A very pro-establishment view. Is asking for an inquiry into unexplained disappearences in turmoil ridden Punjab a separatist agenda alone? Wouldn’t Indians like to know the truth or shld they live with the govt narrative. Similarly, is asking for justice in the 1984 genocide separatism? India shld address these concerns and fast track investigations into the above 2 primary issues concerning the Sikhs and pull the rug from beneath the feet of the radicals rather than lumbering along for 30 yrs+ as has been the case. Majority of Sikhs don’t support Khalistan and would not like to have a hampered access to Takht Patna sahib and Takht Nanded sahib besides Hemkunt Sahib as they have been in the case of Sikh shrines in Pakistan.
Mr Gupta also chooses to address the synptoms rather than the cause and crib about the malaise for decades together.
Sikhs have selflessly contributed to the idea of India pre and post independence and such contrubution should be acknowledged. The setback caused by Op BlueStar (a political game gone awry?) & police excesses during the “dark period” shloud be addressed and a
closure to the issues be attempted. If the issues for the separatists are missing, in a future scenario, the raison d’être ceases to exist, which shall undoubtedly help India’s image and the handling of the Pakistan sponsored & China prodded Kashmir militancy.
Digging up ghosts and doing post mortem of contentious history is an exercise in futility and serves zero useful purpose.
The only thing to be learnt from the entire episode is – it was sad and unfortunate time and the folly of separatism cost Punjab dearly.
Trying to do an academic accounting of “your side” and “my side” is the fetish of the Firangi Khalistani lunatics – not of the Punjabis in Punjab .
Yes, it is right that there ought to be justice to the victims of 1984 etc – but what has Canada got to do with it? Trudeau’s pampering of terrorists is likely to harden public opinion in India and damage Canada-India relations, not help deliver justice for the victims of 1984. Hardline Sikhs in Canada are a fringe, and this is all about domestic Canadian politics not some great sympathy for people in India. Its likely to backfire badly on Trudeau and thence on the Khalistanis in Canada.
None including the writer, disagrees with justice to the victims of 1984, inquiry into unexplained disappearances which happened more than 30 years back. Those problems in Punjab started & ended with rise & fall of Khalistani terrorism, which killed many innocents, blew up a plane & murdered a prime minister.
This article is about anti India Sikh politics in Canada, not about 1984.
Trudeau has landed in India like some bizarre assault on our sensibilities. The visit seems to have little point other than being a family holiday at his country’s taxpayers’ expense. We wish him well and are glad to see him and his entourage enjoying the sights and hospitality of our country. But this “official visit” does have the feel of a tamasha or fancy dress extravaganza rather than serious business. In a bizarre twist, accompanying this procession of folly across India is this ludicrous Khalistani rump, whose depredations we in India had almost forgotten but have now been rudely reminded of. What the PM of Canada was thinking of when he started hobnobbing with these yokels and criminals god alone knows. If his intention was to dazzle us with his modernity and youth, and to foster closer Indo-Canadian ties then he seems to be achieving the opposite. We are left with the notion of a bumbling or even cynical polity that, for petty domestic political gain, has no compunction in dealing with bloodthirsty murderers and has managed to offend in one stroke a nation comprising one-seventh of all humanity and the world’s largest democracy.
पहले क़त्लेआम करो
परदेस भगाओ
फिर ब्लैक लिस्ट करवाओ
फिर ब्लैक लिस्ट से हटाकर वीज़ा दो
फिर मीडिया को खुला छोड दो ।
यही चाणकय नीति है ।
कातिल मोदी
कातिल मनमोहन
तो रक्षक कौन
यहाँ कौन है तेरा
सिखो को जाना कहाँ ?
Gupta Jee, Your surname says it all ……………….. you being a Sikh baiter is a fact even known to aliens.
How Moronic of you to pour your HIndutva feeling out in Open in garb of condemning Canadian PM. How about asking yourself few questions here :
1. Kanishka bombing was handwork of your own security agencies, you idiot.
2. What about your brothers killing 10000 Sikhs in the GENOCIDE, when your mother died . Which again was all planned months in advance and was code-named Operation Shanti ????
3. What about 1,00,000 Sikhs who were killed in COLD BLOOD by your dear Punjab Police ‘cos they couldn’t have time to identify and eliminate Separatist from normal Sikhs. So, they did what they know best ……. Just kill anybody with a flowing beard and ties a Turban. yeah ….. so you blood thirsty nation could be satisfied
4. What about your courts not pronouncing guilty any of the culprits who killed 1,50,000 Sikhs in 80’s – 90’s ????
You guys are so damn jealeous of our achivements …. you cant simply digest it …. You guys cant handle a fact that 5 Sikhs are Ministers are in a Cabinet of a Foreign country. You spineless lala’s are best dealt known to this country to spew venom against us from centuries and while my ancestors were fighting for a thankless country, your’s were readying hoarding of essntial items, so that they could sell it at a higher price later.
Have balls and publish this ……………. you brainless piece of shit !!!!!
Trudeau returns with a thick bamboo up his arse.
Shekhar Gupta should pay heed to what Aditi Mahajan has written. It is Indians like her (I count myself amongst those Indians) that are instrumental in India’s progress. Mr Gupta and his ilk only know how to play political games. They don’t give a damn about what happens to Indians. Their only concern seems to be piece of land. Sad really.
The article is written badly . Defaming Sikhs . Very biased . The jounralist has not written truth , rather he has penned out thoughts of his own mind . See no body ever has written why idea of khalistan came into picture when sikhs refused to make khalistan , when offered in 1947 . Nobody ever thinks what happened to the most loyal community that they demanded for khalistan . Now any one dont say it was there greed . They have saved hinduism and India many times putting themselve in huge problems . So first about root cause . You will find politician always cheated punjab .
Very well said. Not only punjabis all Indians living in Canada love Treadeu. This article has Hindutva tone and not expected from Shekhar Gupta.
Indias eternal problem: we never punish the guilty. Not in Punjab, not in Gujarat. And then we wonder why ghosts keep rearing up. I understand sovereignty of India is sacrosanct, but saying that “everyone’s moved on” is such a joke. Keep living in that delusion. If India was so assured of being a “happy family happily ever after”, this writer would not bristle at every small Trudeau movement. It is a black mark on Congress, and BJP never had a good reputation on minorities issues to start with. It’s only the people of India – whatever religion – that are keeping this country together. Both the political parties have done their darnest to ruin lives based on religion. Don’t blame the Canadians. Look at your own jokers
This has to be the most biased article written in the favour of Indian Givernment. The majority of Sikhs respect and Love Trudeau and hate the RSS hindutva goons like Modi. There is no justice for Sikhs in India. Sikhs were killed in thousands in the 1984 genocide and the people responsible for their killings are multi millionaire and ministers in India. This Indian government is just jealous of the property of the Sikhs. If this was Gujarati cabinet ministers accompanying Trudeau, Modi would have been a tour guide for them the whole week.
I have lived in Punjab and outside of Punjab in India for 16 years and I know how Ill treated the Sikhs were by these Hindus.
This is a black mark on India on how they treated Trudeau and they will get a taste of their own medicine back when their diplomats or PM try to visit Canada.
Sikhs love Trudeau in Punjab and in Canada.
Ask anyone in Punjab. They live Canada more than India. The only reason they are scared to see they want KHalistan is because they are worried they will lose whatever they have and their children. Let them immigrate to Canada and then you will hear what they really think about this corrupt Indi where Hindus are running wild and crippling the rights of the minorities.
Cock and bull. Leave us alone. Tradu and his Sikhs belong to Canada. Do what u want there.
Is a seperate Punjab feasible at all?. What will be the contours of its geography in case it seperates. On its west it will have Pakistan and north it will have Pakistan occupied kashmir and without a sea coast. In these circumstances can a seperate Punjab state survive, the only way it will end up is as current state of Afganisthan. Therefore these Khalistan activivists should think how thier idea of a seperate state will be in reality. Hope sense will prevail.
Insensitive depiction made without analysing the actual reasons for the Punjab problem. A very pro-establishment view. Is asking for an inquiry into unexplained disappearences in turmoil ridden Punjab a separatist agenda alone? Wouldn’t Indians like to know the truth or shld they live with the govt narrative. Similarly, is asking for justice in the 1984 genocide separatism? India shld address these concerns and fast track investigations into the above 2 primary issues concerning the Sikhs and pull the rug from beneath the feet of the radicals rather than lumbering along for 30 yrs+ as has been the case. Majority of Sikhs don’t support Khalistan and would not like to have a hampered access to Takht Patna sahib and Takht Nanded sahib besides Hemkunt Sahib as they have been in the case of Sikh shrines in Pakistan.
Mr Gupta also chooses to address the synptoms rather than the cause and crib about the malaise for decades together.
Sikhs have selflessly contributed to the idea of India pre and post independence and such contrubution should be acknowledged. The setback caused by Op BlueStar (a political game gone awry?) & police excesses during the “dark period” shloud be addressed and a
closure to the issues be attempted. If the issues for the separatists are missing, in a future scenario, the raison d’être ceases to exist, which shall undoubtedly help India’s image and the handling of the Pakistan sponsored & China prodded Kashmir militancy.
Food for thought.
There is a saying – let sleeping dogs lie.
Digging up ghosts and doing post mortem of contentious history is an exercise in futility and serves zero useful purpose.
The only thing to be learnt from the entire episode is – it was sad and unfortunate time and the folly of separatism cost Punjab dearly.
Trying to do an academic accounting of “your side” and “my side” is the fetish of the Firangi Khalistani lunatics – not of the Punjabis in Punjab .
Yes, it is right that there ought to be justice to the victims of 1984 etc – but what has Canada got to do with it? Trudeau’s pampering of terrorists is likely to harden public opinion in India and damage Canada-India relations, not help deliver justice for the victims of 1984. Hardline Sikhs in Canada are a fringe, and this is all about domestic Canadian politics not some great sympathy for people in India. Its likely to backfire badly on Trudeau and thence on the Khalistanis in Canada.
None including the writer, disagrees with justice to the victims of 1984, inquiry into unexplained disappearances which happened more than 30 years back. Those problems in Punjab started & ended with rise & fall of Khalistani terrorism, which killed many innocents, blew up a plane & murdered a prime minister.
This article is about anti India Sikh politics in Canada, not about 1984.
Trudeau has landed in India like some bizarre assault on our sensibilities. The visit seems to have little point other than being a family holiday at his country’s taxpayers’ expense. We wish him well and are glad to see him and his entourage enjoying the sights and hospitality of our country. But this “official visit” does have the feel of a tamasha or fancy dress extravaganza rather than serious business. In a bizarre twist, accompanying this procession of folly across India is this ludicrous Khalistani rump, whose depredations we in India had almost forgotten but have now been rudely reminded of. What the PM of Canada was thinking of when he started hobnobbing with these yokels and criminals god alone knows. If his intention was to dazzle us with his modernity and youth, and to foster closer Indo-Canadian ties then he seems to be achieving the opposite. We are left with the notion of a bumbling or even cynical polity that, for petty domestic political gain, has no compunction in dealing with bloodthirsty murderers and has managed to offend in one stroke a nation comprising one-seventh of all humanity and the world’s largest democracy.
Good one
Life is to do something positive- Way forwards is to move on – leave behind lousy politics—
Good one.