BHARATIYAS, RESIST EFFORTS AT DIVISION AND UNITE: PM MODI

The call from the Prime Minister is for each of us to resist division among ourselves and unite around the over 6,000 years of history all of us have equal title to.

October 31, 1984 was the day Prime Minister Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was assassinated in her official residence by two of her bodyguards. Subsequently, the capital city of India witnessed what could only be described as an organised pogrom targeting members of the Sikh community.

Very little of such mayhem was spontaneous, they were clearly organised and orchestrated. Only after Narendra Modi took over as the Prime Minister of India in 2014 were those still living among the principal perpetrators brought to justice. The long wait for justice for victims of the 1984 riots was a travesty of that noble term, but since 2014, those held by courts as guilty of complicity in the riots were punished.

Just as their Pakistan Army minders, several of friends and family of the same minders were or are living in properties that had to be abandoned by members of the Sikh community. Many because they were killed during 1946-47, others because they managed to save their lives by escaping into the Republic of India.

This is the genocide that the small band of adherents in the "K Group" (a more apt name than calling them Khalistanis) on behalf of their puppeteers in the Pakistan military, wish the world to forget.