The violence which rocked Haryana and adjoining areas cannot be limited to administrative or police failure. But violence in Haryana shows lack of meaningful engagement between a sect and the state because of the state of electoral politics today. But the irony is that the followers are mostly people who are already marginal and peripheral to the imagination of the Indian state. Indian state is not divorced from the mainstream biases of the society as it has repeatedly failed into protecting and treating lower castes equally. Whether it is the case of Mazhabi Sikhs or Dalit Muslims or Dalit Christians, Indian state at the level of benefit distribution has failed often.

Source: dna August 26, 2017 12:04 UTC