AAP mocks BJP for playing identity politics now doing the same in Punjab, AAP , Banda Singh Bahadur, Barapullah flyover, Punjabi language, government school,Punjab polls 2017
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AAP mocks BJP for playing identity politics now doing the same in Punjab, AAP, Banda Singh Bahadur,Barapullah flyover, Punjabi language,government school,Punjab polls 2017
AAP’s style of politics seems to be losing its original flavour as it prepares to fight the electoral battle in Punjab. An example of it is the AAP government’s recent decision to rename the Barapullah flyover – the lengthy corridor which reduces dramatically the time taken to travel from East Delhi to South Delhi – after Banda Singh Bahadur, the legendary 18th century Sikh warrior.
In addition, the AAP dispensation in Delhi has announced its intent to ensure that every government school in the city will have at least one teacher of the Punjabi language, as also to increase the salaries of such instructors.
To publicise these two decisions – the renaming of the Barapullah flyover and its Punjabi language policy – the Delhi government has taken out full-page advertisements in some newspapers published in Delhi. This is not unusual – just about every government seeks to advertise what it believes are its achievements.
As is well known, Banda Bahadur, who was brought into the Sikh fold by Guru Gobind Singh, defied the Mughals to establish his own independent principality. However, in 1716, the Mughal army vanquished, imprisoned and brought him and his followers to Delhi, where they were brutally tortured and put to death.
This year, coincidentally marks the third centenary of Baba Banda Bahadur’s martyrdom – a fact AAP has cited to rechristen Barapullah as Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Bridge.