The destiny of Bharat, which is India, mirrors the life of Shri Ram. Despite facing immense challenges over time, he upheld the ideals of Ram Rajya, ensuring peace and prosperity. Similarly, Bharat has endured the trials of Mughal invasions, British rule, Partition, wars, and now the resurgence of the Khalistan movement within our motherland. Yet, through every challenge, we have continued to shine and remain resilient.
The Canadian Media not alone but predominantly consisting of five-eye nations continues publishing news concerning the rise of the Khalistan movement in the Indian subcontinent. This propaganda of Khalistan is highly supported by the Canadian government led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau even his politics is highly influenced by the Khalistani extremist leaders because understanding the demographic structure of the Canadian electoral system can easily give you a brief overview of why they are constantly supporting and encouraging the idea of Khalistan rather than submerging it.
Were these ideas of separation new to the Indian subcontinent? I believe the answer is no, because, for a long time when India was trying to emerge as an economic and global superpower, the West specifically, Euro-American allies tried to constrain it with intra-state elements. Long story short, firstly, the research will exclusively analyse the major security challenges faced by India in the last two decades (major parties), secondly, the aim of Canada-based Khalistani groups, and thirdly, even provocation of Indian intelligence can lead to the divide of Canada like Pakistan.
Kalistan can be a new Jaish-e-Mohammed
Islamic organisations like Jaish-e-Mohammed and many more were a threat to Indian security majorly in the border states like Rajasthan, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir, and to some extent in Gujrat. But the radical organisations were not limited to the border states, there have been incidents like the Indian Parliament Attack 2001 which was a most high profile terrorist act followed by the UP Attack Plot 2006 which targeted Sankat Mochan Mandir and Varanasi Cantt Railway Station, later Bengaluru Blast Links 2014.
Particularly organisations like Jaish-e-Mohammed which was established by radical Islamic practitioners led by Masood Azhar who was declared a terrorist in India. Most importantly India was not the only country to designate Jaish-e-Mohammed as a terrorist organisation Pakistan, Russia, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, The United Arab Emirates, the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and the United Nations have also designated Jaish-e-Mohammed as a terrorist organisation. Hypocrisy is there in the context of Pakistan where it has been highly established that Jaish-e-Mohammed was apparently created with the support of Inter-Services Intelligence – ISI which is the intelligence organisation of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Importantly, Jaish-e-Mohammed also maintained a close ally with Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. “Dar al-Islam” (abode of Islam) and “Dar al-Harb” (abode of war) were the main concerns of Jaish-e-Mohammed in the context of the province of Jammu and Kashmir. Therefore, multiple peoples were propagated by this Islamic ideology which was the direct plan of action by Jaish-e-Mohammed.
Here comes the comparison between Jaish-e-Mohammed and Khalistan, the protest of Khalistan has no locus standi in India, as the major pro-Khalistani organisations are operating it from the western lands, predominantly from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom diaspora. The first link between both organisations can be with the threat towards the Sanatan religious places, on the 10th of November 2024 pro-Khalistani leader and the founder of Sikh for Justice (SFJ), Gurupatwant Singh Pannu issued a threat targeting the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.
In context to the faith of Hindu people in India, Ram Mandir has emerged as a sign of religious monument for them, therefore, directly targeting Ram Mandir can be a symbolic way of fighting a religious war. Secondly, the targeting of Hindu temples in Canada and the waving of the Khalistani flag on the temple premises has shown the dominant status of the counterpart in a foreign land. Through the analysis of the very beginning activities of Jaish-e-Mohammed, we discovered that bombarding was not their very prior act, very firstly they created the status of disturbance at the religious places like the similar activity which has been done by the Pro-Khalistani people in Canada.
What Pro-Khalistanis want?
With the discovery of literature, analysis can be drawn that the minor movements performed on foreign land grab the attention of sovereign powers who are not aligned with the perpetrator’s victims. So where did it start, in recent times the very founding stone was laid six months back during the Khalsa Day celebration in Toronto, Canada where the sitting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Leader of the Opposition attended the gatherings organised by the Sikh community in Canada.
During the address of Justin Trudeau, the crowd started shouting and chanting the slogan of “Khalistan Zindabad” slogan. It’s quite understood that Justin Trudeau knows the meaning of Khalistan because he’s very closely working with pro-Khalistani leaders, therefore, giving them the space to raise anti-India slogans is a fault of the Canadian administration from the very beginning, importantly during his visit to India on the occasion of G20, he addressed media, “action of few don’t represent Canada”!.
The strategy followed by the pro-Khalistani activists is quite influential, the new Democratic party which is led by Jagmeet Singh is also a Member of the House of Commons, Canada is constantly asked to recognise the 1984 Riots in the Canadian Parliament as a Sikh genocide in India which is quite vague and specifically he not asking for recognition but through motion he said; “direct attack to the cruel government” to be made.
Let’s explore one fun fact, Jagmeet Singh is banned from traveling in India because of his separatist intentions. Moving forward, whenever you see the definition of genocide you will find two terminologies which are “intention” and “idea of annihilation” should be there in the mind of perpetrators against the victim and that was not the scene in 1984 not specifically in the mindset of non-sikh individuals so the demand from Jagmeet Singh stands nowhere in the eyesight of any of the historians. Nevertheless, propaganda is the only way to achieve unstability and the same has been performed by the pro-Khalistani activists and the leaders in Canadian politics.
According to the studies, we can derive that Khalistani leaders have been influenced by the strategic movement of Armenia. The Armenians have made propaganda against the Turkish throughout the whole world and internationalised the concern in managing to get hate against Turkey in geopolitics. So, the course of the plan which pro-Khalistani leaders and pro-Khalistani activists have to first recognise the Sikh Riots of 1984 as a genocide in the Canadian Parliament, which will not be shocking if they manage to get it done after that they will ask the five-eyes countries and fellow Commonwealth countries to get it recognised as genocide to make the hatred against India to set the narrative of Khalistan as a different sovereign state from India, but with limited literature analysis interference of Pakistan can also be traced in this movement, as no Khalistani activist is asking for the Heartland of Punjab which falls under the territory of Pakistan.
Therefore, the narrative I have mentioned above is not only drawn from my mindset but a few years back in 2017, the Ontario State Legislation of Canada passed a similar resolution categorising the 1984 riot as a genocide, incubated by the legislator Harinder Malhi which led to the founding stone of the intention from Jagmeet Singh to make it as the international agenda.
If India goes for “an Eye for an Eye”
In this contemporary world, the Research and Analysis Wing of India popularly known as R&AW holds dominant status in geopolitics and manipulating situations globally. Earlier it has been said that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the US, the Committee for State Security (KGB) of Russia and the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) of the United Kingdom, help their nation control the situations and even in the worst divide the sovereign states like the example of Korean Partition, creation of Israel and Middle East Conflict, Partition of Cyprus, creation of South Sudan and many more. Additionally, no one can forget the role of the R&AW in helping Bangladesh against Pakistan.
On this note, the French-speaking Province of Québec in Canada has been asking for the status of a sovereign state for a very long time. Their culture, idea of nationality and their beliefs are not aligned with their Canadian counterparts. Way back in 1995, the province of Québec hosted a referendum to see the populous opinion of the locals for setting their way away from Canada. Still, there are large set of population demand for the sovereign status for the Québec and most importantly in the Canadian constitution, they have a special status for administration and legislation. To conclude, “people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”.
