The genesis of Khalistan movement were #FarmersProtest which erupted after the Indian govt introduced sections 78, 79 and 80 in the Punjab Reorganization Act, 1966 against the unalienable constitutional rights of Punjab over it's rivers. Punjab is the only state whose...

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..rivers are controlled by federal government. The control of rivers have always been the prerogative of the state as per the constitution. When East Punjab was divided into two new states; Haryana and Himachal Pradesh after the Punjab Reorganization Act, 1966, over 75%...

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..of Punjab’s river water was diverted to non-riparian states of Haryana and Rajasthan through the Gandhi Canal and SYL Canal respectively. Before 1966, Punjab which includes Haryana had riparian rights over Ravi, Beas, Satluj and Jamuna.

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At the moment, Haryana gets waters from Jamuna but also from the three rivers of Punjab despite of the fact that it is non riparian to the three rivers of Punjab whereas Punjab does not get any water from Jamuna, because it is non riparian to that river.

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Lieutenant General Harwant Singh writes, “If the present distribution of waters is accepted, then 9 lakh acres of land in Punjab will become barren and 1.5 million families rendered destitute. The water table in Punjab has been falling at an alarming rate and if this..

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..depletion of ground water is to continue due to lack of availability of waters of its own rivers, then the better part of Punjab will turn into desert, sooner rather than later”.

According to the Institute of Sikh Studies, Chandigarh: “An organisation of farmers had...

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petition in the High Court, Punjab and Haryana, regarding the unconstitutionality of the drain of the waters of the Punjab to the non-riparian states under the Reorganisation Act. The issue being of fundamental constitutional importance, the Chief Justice, S.S. Sandhawalia..

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admitted the long pending petition and announced the constitution of a Full Bench, with himself as Chairman, for the hearing of case on the following Monday, the 25th November, 1983. In the intervening two days before hearing of the case could start, two things happened:

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First, before Monday, the Chief Justice of the High Court was transferred to the High Court of Patna. Hence neither the Bench could sit, nor could the hearing of the case start. Second an oral application was given by the Attorney General in the Supreme Court requesting...

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transfer of writ petition from file of High Court to that of the Supreme Court on the ground that issue involved was of great public importance. The request was granted; the case was transferred. And there this case of great public importance rests unheard for the last 20 years”

These events led to the Andhapur Sahib Resolution at the 18th All India Akali Conference of Shiromani Akali Dal at Ludhiana on 28–29 October 1978. The resolution included both religious and political issues. It asked for recognising Sikhism as a religion separate from Hinduism.

The @WSJ wrote about the nature of demands in Andhapur Sahib Resolution:

"The Akali Dal is in the hands of moderate and sensible leadership...but giving anyone a fair share of power is unthinkable politics of Mrs. Gandhi [the then Prime Minister of India..

...Many Hindus in Punjab privately concede that there isn't much wrong with these demands. But every time the ball goes to the Congress court, it is kicked out one way or another because Mrs. Gandhi considers it a good electoral calculation."

This lead to the carnage of 1984 when Indian forces attacked the Golden Temple and 37 Gurdwaras. They took young boys who were 8 to 13 years old outside and asked them if they supported Khalistan. When the young boys responded "Bole So Nihal", they were killed.

The never ending repression of minorities continued. Inderjeet Singh Jaijee writes in his book 'The Politics of Genocide' that over 250,000 Sikhs have been killed since 1984 as per the figures compiled by the Punjab State Magistry and human rights groups https://twitter.com/tequieremos/status/1201930333479997443?s=19

A detailed thread on the state sponsored #SikhGenocide in 1984. https://twitter.com/tequieremos/status/1322783860522946561?s=19