Bhindranwale became popular among militant Sikhs, because he was able to convince people that Delhi (Indira Gandhi) was oppressing Sikhs. Victimhood forms an essential part of Khalistani narrative.

Without the victimhood, they lose the narrative.
Modi Govt brought out 3 #FarmLaws meant to liberate farmers, especially small & middle-size farmers, from middlemen cartels and give them possibility to sell directly to willing customers, and thus increase their income.

Big farmers & middlemen organized fake #FarmersProtests
Since these protests were led by Jat Sikhs, an influential group in sensitive border-state of Punjab, Modi Govt relented and agreed to suspend #FarmLaws, a huge concession.

However Khalistanis entrenched among these protestors desired a violent exchange with security forces.
Modi govt did not oblige. There were ten rounds of talks with so-called "farmer" groups. Govt even gave these groups permission to hold a tractor rally around the capital on #RepublicDay .

Government has shown patience, respect and no aggression to these "farmer" protestors.
Now these"farmer groups" have shown their true face, by running over the defensive police with tractors, and raising Khalistani flags over the #RedFort.

More importantly, these Khalistanis have no fig leaf of state violence against protestors to build their victimhood narrative.
Khalistanis and their Pakistani masters have overlooked that this Khalistani victory in Delhi is pyrrhic.

Without the victimhood narrative to found this victory on and with a massively popular Prime Minister Modi, even Jat Sikhs will now ditch any latent sympathies for Khalistan
Khalistanis despite hoisting their flag in Red Fort did not win any victories today, but rather they have isolated themselves today.

It may have given more confidence to the Khalistani-mided militants, but they have lost the Jat Sikh constituency and international sympathy today
Why have the Khalistanis lost?

Because those group of middlemen & big farmers who came to "protest" for economic reasons will feel betrayed, that even though their protest was fake, it wasn't meant to be seditious.

Jat Sikhs will now spurn these Khalistanis.
Some reactions
Using the #FarmLaws and the so-called #FarmersProtest, #Khalistanis had built an opening into mainstreaming Khalistanism again among Jat Sikhs of Punjab and possibly relighting the fires of an insurgency.

That opening has been closed today, by paying a heavy cost of humiliation.
#CryptoKhalistanis are mad that government did not attack the #PseudoFarmers and there was no bloodshed, and #Khalistanis embedded in the so-called #FarmerProtest outed themselves.

#DelhiUnderAttack
Bend it like Biden
Today, India dodged a bullet.

#RepublicDay2021
On seeing scenes like this where police were in a defensive posture, being attacked by hooligans, calling themselves farmers, it really hurts

It shd be clear. State has all the power at its disposal. If it chooses not to use it, it's a deliberate decision
There was maximum provocation to have the State hit back, and yet India under Modi refused to hit back.

So many policemen accepted this assault on themselves. So many ordinary people of Delhi were forced to gulp down this Halahal, bear the inconvenience of a siege and bullying.
Under this maximum provocation, the State would have been completely within its rights to hit back and basically kill anybody assaulting a policeman. Yet not one protestor died today at the hands of the police.

Why?

This was the price India paid today to expose the Truth.
Yes, there're many places in India, where certain groups hate India, hate Hindus. They try to transform their hate into a wider insurgency.

That's possible only if the wider community of those haters are convinced that India hates them too

Political leadership must prevent that
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