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The ability to control the policies and culture of a society can be considered as power politics. The political power has the power to implement their laws and regulations. This article analyses the political issues that lie deep-rooted in the novel Can You Hear the Night Bird Call? by Anita Rau Badami. This analysis is done with centring Louis Althusser's theory of State Apparatus. The novel explores power politics as a powerful means of producing power relations. Badami through her work highlights the marginalised Sikh Community focusing on Sikh women who become the victims of the state. Can You Hear the Night Bird Call? expresses the repression of the Sikh community through various historic events. Many religious conflicts become the source behind the brutality where human kill each other with no sagacity of compassion. A study has been made at how the identity of humans gets modified through different expression legitimated by the state at the social level.