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Dal Khalsa sounds alarm bell on influx of migrants in Punjab
WSN Network

Nawan Shahr: While observing 41st anniversary of the formation of the Punjab, radical political party Dal Khalsa sounded the alarm bells on the issue of demographic change in Punjab due to heavy influx of the migrant population into the state.

At a rally here, party leader Harcharnjit Singh Dhami said that Dal Khalsa perceives that an Assam-like serious foreigners issue is going to quickly emerge as far as demographic scene is concerned. because of the unmindful support to the migrant population by all parties.

Terming the economic need for migrant labour as hogwash, he said that it was not an economic issue, it was a political one.

Strongly criticizing the Election Commission for its failure to check double standards in Punjab, the president of Dal Khalsa Satnam Singh posed a string of questions to the Election Commission of India. He queried, "Can any Punjabi have a double vote in another state of India? There are more than ten lakh voters in Punjab who are voters in more than one place in India.

There is more than enough Punjabi labour, but both in the farmlands and in industrial units, employers look for cheap labour by flouting legal provisions of the Minimum Wages Act. Malls, buildings, residential estates all have their head offices in Delhi and beyond, they employ non-Punjabi labour and white collar staff and use heavy machinery from outside Punjab. The so-called developmental process that we see all around is benefitting only the non-Punjabis and unscrupulous leaders of Akali Dal Badal and Congress. Taking the discourse to a high pitch, Satnam Singh said, "if this was not colonialism, then what was?"

He said the Dal Khalsa will soon present a detailed research study on the subject. Kanwarpal Singh, the Dal Khalsa spokesperson, the problem would not be resolved with force. Bhai Mohkam Singh and Bhai Jasbir Singh Rode, both senior members of the Khalsa Action Committee, rued that Punjabi language and culture was being ruined in a planned way.

7 November, 2007 
 

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