From a Hindu-majority state, now Sikhs dominated, thus achieving one of the historical aims behind the Punjabi Suba movement. “A way out was to ask for Punjabi Suba on linguistic basis. Punjabi Suba or no Suba, we are deliberately keeping farmers impoverished,” he says. Calcutta feels that 50 years down the line the whole purpose of Punjabi Suba has been defeated. Punjabi Suba was about Sikh consolidation, but it is nowhere in sight,” he says wistfully.

Source: Indian Express October 23, 2016 23:14 UTC