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JALANDHAR: Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) growing popularity among NRIs and in Punjab is causing a churning in unexpected quarters: Radical Sikh groups. These outfits operating from abroad, who have been vociferously raising issues like injustice to 1984 riot victims and eviction of farmers from Kutch in Gujarat, are aghast at AAP "hijacking" their agenda and even garnering support.

These groups claim that they enjoy widespread support in Punjab and abroad.

The Dal Khalsa, for instance, sees the Congress, BJP and AAP as chips of the same block. Party head H S Dhami says, "For Sikhs, it hardly matters who holds the reins in Delhi. The community has participated in elections with enthusiasm since 1950, but could not get justice from any party even on crucial issues like massacre of Sikhs in the national capital."

US-based Khalistani ideologue Dr Amarjit Singh expects little from AAP. "Sikhs who wish for Khalistan should stick to their agenda as AAP is also not addressing their issues," he had said in a recent special televised discussion on a Punjabi channel in the US.

Akali Dal Panch Pardhani brought out the crux of the radicals' thought. "AAP is also working in a limited political paradigm and has limitations. The electoral process can't that address the aspirational issues of different communities and nationalities, so we are staying away from it," said acting president Harpal Singh Cheema.

Author Ajmer Singh, who has written on contemporary Sikh history, believes a few groups are feeling threatened as their support base among Sikhs who feel alienated could shrink with AAP's advent.

"For a few groups, this position is more like sticking to their ideological and theoretical position in place of making a strategic political intervention to change the situation. Limitations of AAP should also be understood, but to oppose it blindly when it has tried to address a couple of justice issues is not very logical from the point of view of political strategy," he pointed out.

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Same old divide and rule split voting tactic.

US-based Khalistani ideologue Dr Amarjit Singh expects little from AAP. "Sikhs who wish for Khalistan should stick to their agenda as AAP is also not addressing their issues," he had said in a recent special televised discussion on a Punjabi channel in the US.

Whoever this dude dr amarjit singh is, he should be more concerned drafting a rough constitution of khalistan lot of work needs to be done behind closed doors so discussion can take place in near future among sikhs, so that we can up to bar international standards rather than looking like fool, incompetent infront of international stage..he should be more concerned about laying out framework of khalistan rather than dividing voters even more, discouraging voters going for a party whose premises is to address root issues of common man, once root issues (human right abuses, corruption, power abuse) are addressed than only sensible civilian discussions negotiations diplomacy can take place ( such as treaties, land, language, autonomy like kashmir tibet etc).

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