CAPT: DENIAL WILL DIVIDE COMMUNITY
Thursday, 17/03/2016
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CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday condemned the move to amend the Sikh Gurdwara Act debarring and disenfranchising the Sehajdhari Sikhs from their voting rights in the SGPC elections, saying, it will simply divide the community.
“This is the most regressive and retrograde move by the government of India at the behest of the Akalis just to retain their hold on the SGPC and in the process have divided the community,” Amarinder said in a statement.
The former chief minister reiterated that every Sikh, who believes in the tenets of Sikhism, must have the right to vote in the SGPC elections. “It is an irony that the very democratic legislative procedure has been misused to disenfranchise a large section of the society from exercising their democratic right to vote”, he observed, while hoping that the amendment does not stand the scrutiny of the judicial review.
