After the blast in a temple in Amritsar, an accused Gursidak alias Sidki, a resident of village Bal Kalan, was recently encountered by the police, while his accomplice Vishal alias Chui, a resident of Rajasansi, had absconded. The issue of the deteriorating law and order situation after the blasts was also raised in Parliament, but still, who is the mastermind of the blasts that have been happening since last year, has not been identified yet. Therefore, only the perpetrators have come under the police’s control. The series of blasts that started in November 2024 last year is not showing any signs of stopping and this is the first attack on a religious place, while this is the 13th attack in the state. On November 24, 2024, an IED was detonated outside the Ajnala police station in Amritsar. It was planted, although it did not explode. On November 27, a grenade attack was carried out in the closed police post Gurbaksh Nagar in Amritsar city, on December 2, a grenade attack in the Kathgarh police station in Mohali, on December 3, a grenade attack outside the Majitha police station in Amritsar, which the police refused to accept, saying that the tire of the vehicle was burst. On December 13, a grenade attack was carried out in the Aliwal Batala police station, on December 17, a grenade attack was carried out at the Islamabad police station in Amritsar, on December 19, an attack on the closed post of Bakshiwala in Gurdaspur, on December 21, an attack on the police post of Wadala in Kalanaur, the first incident of this year, a blast took place in the police post Gumtala in Amritsar on January 16, a grenade attack on the house of a liquor merchant in village Jaintipur on January 19, a grenade attack on the Fatehgarh Churian Road on February 3 The attack on the closed post of the Dera Baba Nanak policeman in Gurdaspur on February 14 and the grenade attack on the temple by a Thakur from Amritsar yesterday are the main cases.
The current situation in Punjab is reminding every Punjabi of the events of 1982-84. Every second or fourth there were incidents of cow horns being thrown in some temple, cigarettes and bidis or similar mischievous things were found in the Gurdwara Sarovars. The story is that the communal fire was kept burning in Punjab through the indigenous print media so that an atmosphere of communal tension and lawlessness was created.
The attack on five devotees with an iron rod by a non-Punjabi inside the Darbar Sahib is a very serious recent incident. The attacker was caught and handed over to the police. The devotees suspect that the case will be pressed like before as a sacrilege case. The arrested attacker has been identified as Zulfan, a resident of Yamuna Nagar, Haryana. He had come to Amritsar for the last 2-3 days.
According to Daljit Singh Cheema of Badal Akali Dal, this is the 13th grenade blast in the Amritsar area that has happened in the last few days. Another such provocative incident happened in Ludhiana recently when drunken gangs pelted stones on a mosque. No police personnel were seen near a sensitive place like a mosque during the stone-pelting.
Terrorist incidents by individuals in the name of Shiv Sena brand keep happening in their place. Three young accused have been arrested in the latest incident of murder of Moga district Sena chief. A young man was killed in a fake police encounter. He had apparently fled. In fact, this incident involving the Shiv Sena has nothing to do with communal alignment, it has turned out to be a case of extortion/blackmail/administrative corruption.
People should identify themselves as to what tactics the intelligence state machinery had adopted in 1982-84 to derail the Dharamyudh Morcha? How the atmosphere of Punjab was disturbed and conditions conducive to intervention were created for the army? Governor Pandey had exposed some important aspects of that chapter.
People should identify as to which forces are now destroying the possible communal atmosphere in Punjab for different purposes and what are they trying to achieve in this business?
Decades pass, objectives keep changing, but the flow of historical unity in the hands of the state keeps flowing in its place. By giving the police permission to fake encounters and bulldoze, Lala Kejriwal and Aman Arora are playing the dangerous game of Beant Singh’s era. After Vipassana, many Hindus may unite politically around the broomstick, but this is an open invitation to lawlessness and anarchy in Punjab. How cunningly Arora is threatening to let the police loose and saying that “whoever holds a hand grenade should be ready for a police encounter”! In such a serious, suspicious incident, he is quietly removing the police investigation and the intervention of the judiciary. The democratic instinct is missing from this. Such a fascist culture should be firmly opposed. When the police get blood on their faces, incidents like Patiala will emerge before you step by step.
