(Police leading a procession of All India Sikh Students Federation taken out in Amritsar in May, 1981, supporting the demand for declaring Amritsar a holy city: where intoxicants were not to be permitted).
In response, ten thousand Hindu fanatics countered with their own demonstration in Amritsar. They carried cigarette boxes atop poles and shouted “Hindi, Hindu, Hindustan–Nahin banega Khalistan” (Only Hindi language, Hindu religion and Hindustan the country will be-and no Khalistan. Smoking is forbidden to Sikhs.
