Chandigarh was always in BJP kitty, kher was not good choice yet people voted on modi. Bjo took chd for granted. Chd is full of himachalus, uttarakhandis, jammuites haryanvis apart from punjabi (sikh and hindu). Developing tricity periphery. will uplift western haryana, southern himachal and easteren punjab. If tbey wanted to skirt punjab they could have de eloped panchkula who voted bjp to power twice. But BJP literally ignored north west. The major investment push was in kashmir par of jammu and kashmir. CHD anway came under central govt - doesnt really matter much who is mp or which party has municipal. Powerful sectors in northern part come under Central govt rule anyway via administrators
But the very fact this government isn't even developing Chandigarh is proof of the fact that they're not interested in that belt at all. What you've written above is supporting my post unwittingly.
As far as Haryana goes the only regions of Haryana which'd register government sponsored development are those areas under the NCR.
Even this time bjp lost by margin of just 2000 votes that too periphery which anyway is fastly becoming demographic nightmare. People has started banning greenies poorvis from settling in villages around chd.
With the huge drop in TFR all these measures are temporary at best . The Muslims in Punjab are already near 7% if I'm not mistaken where till the 2000s they were below 5% & these Khalistani xhutias are busy renovating mosques abandoned during partition for them .
While they're openly hostile to Hindu migrants from UP , greens from the very same place get welcomed. That's how perverse things have become there . You go to Twitter & you'd see these events being highlighted by khalikhopdis with sickening regularity.
Thing can go south in any state, you already have parallel army strength displayed time to time by certain communities or parties. Its earily similar to how Sikhs started strength show prior to sikh sooba. But control of central govt and state what really matters.
That's where I disagree with you . The Punjabi Subha movement was a religio political movement masquerading as a linguistic movement to get a state where they would be the majority .
The Hindus there knew it from the very beginning which is the reason they never supported it something JuttSikhi never forgave them for till date . Nehru understood it too which is the reason he was never in favour of linguistic states & even when he conceded that demand he was opposed to the Punjabi Suba movement. Things changed when IG came to power .
Eventually after the initial hubris courtesy the green revolution & of course the achievement of a Punjabi / Sikh Suba evaporated what came out of it ? Agricultural prosperity is usually the stepping stone to the next phase of development which is industrialization. Here too Punjab had a start with all those names you've named earlier. But it couldn't make the leap . Here I would blame the political leadership the religious leadership & the local elites.
Terrorism died out in Punjab in the mid 90s . It's been 30 years now yet Punjab has just sunk economically irrespective whoever is in power.
The Dravidian movement is in stark contrast to the Sikh movement masquerading as the Punjabi Suba movement. It was actually a shrewd ploy by non Tamils to seize power by demonizing the Brahmins portraying them as outsiders while being outsiders themselves displacing them from the heirarchy of power & distributing largesse among the rest ensuring no native Tamil comes to power while maintaining their own stranglehold over power.
It's a remarkably successful experiment . Till date it's the only state where immigrants whether 1st 2nd or 4th generation have been in power till very recently. Check out the list of their CMs Kamraj onwards till EPS. They're all immigrants including Stalin.
However this socio cultural movement did bring enormous material benefits right down to the common man in ways the Punjab political class couldn't . Irrespective of whichever Dravidian party was in power they uplifted the economy through various measures benefiting the common man .
There's been massive corruption too but never at the cost of development. CBN is the only other leader who comes to mind to have emulated these Dravidian party's economic outlook without emulating their politics . KCR has a mixed record. The father son duo ought to be publicly lynched if the former was alive. Karnataka has done well in spite of its politicians . Gerala was done for by its politicians especially the Sakkhavus.
Now contrast this to the corrosive political environment in WB & how the Qaumrades destroyed one of the most important metropolises of India & the entire industrial ecosystem centred around it. The blow has been so devastating that you can forget any revival for the next 30 years even if the TMC is thrown out of power tomorrow.
in Punjab. US has been diabolical. Remember Cray X were denied to us during that era. Until CDAc developed Param - they were not offered to us. US played running with hares and hound games. Remember that era all tango activities in India were not recognized by US camp and were termed Indian law and order problem regularly. That was the time when they armed Pak to teeth and singing Kumbaya with China in big way. So do you think they would doling out on India when we were still with Soviet union
