Nope. This mix of toxic religion , politics & ethnic supremacy is unique only to Punjab . It's not just the leadership which has let Punjab down whether in religion or politics but the ordinary people too who've let down themselves.
Tamil Nadu, Dravidian, Evangelical , Eeelam. Hope no one does stupidity like what was done wrt Bhindra wala.
The world over agricultural self sufficiency has been a stepping stone to industrial progress & the thriving of civilization since the dawn of time. That's the reason you've had the 4-5 most successful civilizations in pre history be it the Nile Valley civilization or the Mesopotamian civilization or the SVC civilization or the Yellow Valley Civilization.
It's true even today . Punjab had it too but they collectively blew it. In fact there's another curious phenomenon I've observed. Traditionally intermediate / forward castes candidates who come from successful
agricultural families usually have children who pursue studies & a career outside agriculture.
JuttSikhi is the only ethno religion I know of where the average rate of graduation is below the national average for such intermediate / forward castes . To make matters worse given their over representation in the IA , once the intake gradually came down they couldn't find alternative avenues . It's this group which made up the foot soldiers of Bhindranwale & later the Khalistanis.
Again here is the mistake you guys are doing. Jutt Sikhi is mostly in agricultural land lordship, Army or at max transport/property business. Industry and other Business in Punjab were always dominated by Khatri, Arora, Baniya community. OSWAL, OCM,JCT, Apeejay Group, HERO group, ATLAS etc. It was a running Joke among Punjabis that Jatts and Brahmins dont know how to do business. Jatts joked about themselves ike Jatt (be like ) Unee duna sath (19 x 2 = 60)
We can't even compare it to WB in the 1970s in the lead up to the Naxalite movement as the PCI of WB was still nowhere near that of Punjab although in terms of industrialisation they were among the premier states of India. What made their case worse was the influx of H refugees in 1971 who never returned adding to the financial burden of the state .
Punjab (undivided Punjab) had huge influx of West Punjabi/Sindhi refugees. Infact eastern Punjab had less agragrian land. New canal system, Green revolution and hard working nature of old generation transformed Punjab. And while Bengal had inherited industrial infra of british times. In Punjab it was again created from scratch by enterprising business community - many of them who had migrated penniless from Eastern Punjab.
I could add the narcotics trade the self aggrandisement thru the music industry about Put Jutt da , the OCD to move abroad selling everything for lakhs which could easily be invested here to set up a business if not in Punjab then in other states etc among other reasons & fill up the entire page yet have space for more but trust I've conveyed the gist of the problem.
Every state in India has dominant caste politics. Rajput in Rajasthan, Marathas in Maharastra, Gowdas in Karnataka, Reddy in Telangana , Naidu in Andhra, Nair in Kerala, Yadavs in UP and Bihar.
Terror and Drugs go hand in hand. And once drugs set in roots its difficult to uproot without doing Mao.
Drugs have not just destroyed Punjab but its tentacles have spread in HP, Uttrakhand, Haryana and Jammu.
This OCD move is not just unique in Punjab, but I have seen same tendency in Gujaratis, Rajasthani's and Haryanvis too.
Jatts were darlings of Politcial parties (centre as well as state) in punjab and haryana. Before widespread brainwashing via Gurdwara netwrok in 80s till date - they were decent people to deal with. They suffered similar self-aggrandizement as what Rajputs, Yadavs and Reddy's did.
But what is more worrisome is Halleulafication & increasing migratory islamification of Punjab. Imagine Tamil parties also sees opening in punjab.
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Drugs destroy families.... I knew a very humble decent jutt family long back.. whose grandfather was retd force officer, elder son was also serving Y.O, Younger son had cleared CDS and interview. At that time (25 years ago) a lot of African students came for studies. The family kept a young african man as a tenant and treated him as son. Grandfather was shocked one day to find Eldest son who had come home dead along with African and younger son lost conscious. Rushed them to hospital to find all three had consumed Drugs. two were dead. they were able to revive Younger son - but he had lost mental faculty to take care of himself and lived in morose state.
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