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.