Raghbir Singh Brar
Faridkot
In about 2014, Yogendra Yadav, then a prominent face of the newly emerging AAP said ,”The people of Punjab have lost one generation to the militancy, the second one are losing to the drugs.The SAD-BJP government is pushing this generation into the drugs which is a sin,.”
Yadav, who was then a prominent member of the newly emerging AAP, might have been much optimistic of having his share in the birth of the AAP in India.
His tone and tenure was touching to upset the then SAD-BJP ruling alliance and a very large number of people assembled to hear him in Kotkapura and Faridkot town.
But Yadav might not have anticipated that the state was yet going to lose some part of its third generation on study visa to abroad, drugs right under his then associated party and the rising head of the evil giant, gangsterism and terrrorism.
But history seems to be repeating itself.
Punjab ,which hardly got peace in about the late nineties,once again has been allegedly slipping into terror.
On Sunday, one ASI in Gurdaspur and another homeguard were killed in suspicious circumstances.Some stories allegedly emerged and were dismissed.Then they concluded with the alleged encounter of Ranjit Singh,a 19 years old youth from the same village.
The police version leaves many questions unanswered and so the social media is raising many questions on these incidents.Who allegedly killed both the police employees and Ranjit Singh?
Then from the social media,One learns that wife of colonel Pushpinder Singh Bath is not satisfied with the circumstances so far.It seems so far, she is fighting a lonely battle along with the support of her family alone allegedly minus all .
If the colonel’s wife seems so exhausted after a legal battle and duly procedural fight, what others can expect?
But now, most of the people, media, social activists and others choose to keep a silence because of the so-called fear of getting implicated into legal tangles.
At least,everyone can not afford to hire expensive lawyers in high judiciary.
Punjabis are very peaceful,loving in nature, have deep bonds running across
all the castes and religion are not so bad.
Punjab accommodates so many religious and social communities and is all peaceful, but who is poisoning its soil, is not clear.
The political parties must understand that Punjab and Punjabis are one, it must not be turning into a state run by force, as social media is abuzz that the state is being turned into a ;police state.