Jarnail, Zail, Darbara and 80s of Punjab

There is a news report in The Tribune date September 2, 2008, titled "Zail Singh had no hand in building Bhindrawale."

The report is attribute to an interview with Trilochan Singh, an ex MP and former Secretary of Late President Zail Singh.

According to this report President Zail Singh had met Jathedar Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale on the Bhog ceremony of Jathedar Santokh Singh, who was near to Jatherdar Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale and also Mrs. Indira Gandhi.

Whenever, the history of post independence Punjab in India will be written after fifty years from now, there will definitely the chapters on the Partition of Punjab, the creation of Punjab in 1956 after merging with PEPSU, then Language Formula, Bhim Sen Sachar, and Tara Singh, then Naxalite Movement and finally unrest of 1980s which the intellectual world was never able to understand that why did it actually take place at all.

It was believed that it was clash between the interest of Darbara Singh and Zail Singh which created Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale and this equation then went out from their hands.

In any case, it was news coming out history of recent past or contemporary history.