The general election results 2019 for the state of Punjab pose a grave challenge to Sikhs in India in the near future. When we as a community have already surrendered to the RSS, courtesy our own Sikh leaders, we have to look more within than outside.

The RSS has infiltrated every Sikh institution and is eating our vitals in a rather organised manner. They are disciplined and dedicated with a clear agenda and ideology.

They are trying hard to assimilate Sikhs since 1925 and particularly since 1947 and have been pretty much successful.  Those who resisted in the past, like Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his ilk have been eliminated and those who will resist in future are also likely to meet the same fate.

There is no difference between the Congress and the Bhartiya Janata Party. They are both outputs of the Hindutva input. They are the same sides of the Hindutva coin.

So, what will happen to Sikhs? Will they be subsumed in the vast reservoir of Hinduism? No. Sikhs will virtually rise out of the Phoenix and with the grace of our Gurus survive as we have in the past. We have survived in jungles and we will survive even now.

However, with the very existence of all minorities in danger in India, it will ultimately be the natural law of survival of the fittest. Sikhs have to regroup, regain strength and vigour and come out of their self-defeating and self-destructing activities of massive Langars -community kitchens and gigantic Kirtan Darbars and massive Nagar Kirtans -community marches.

Sikhs need to evolve and engage with farsighted leadership. We missed the bus in 1935 when we could not carry through the Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar offer of joining Sikhs along with his millions of Dalit followers. We again failed to board the bus when our leadership did not see through the Congress party design and rejected the British offer of a sovereign Sikh homeland.  For how long will this continue to happen?

Sikhs will have to realise that they are today living in a critical situation and their very existence in Punjab is in question.