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DSGMC asks Makkar, executive to
quit
WSN Network
NEW DELHI:
Taking strong exception to the definition of Sehajdhari Sikh
submitted to the High Court by the SGPC, the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara
Management Committee (DSGMC) has said no one has right or power to
amend or change the definition and the issue was well decided in
many resolutions of the SGPC itself and by the panth.
The DSGMC passed
a unanimous resolution at an emergency meeting to which Sikh
scholars, academicians and intellectuals were invited last week.
Delhi SGMC chief
Paramjit Singh Sarna, who presided over the meeting, said since the
general house of the SGPC had in 1973 passed and forwarded a
resolution to the Union government saying after the Partition in
1947, a percentage of Sehajdhari Sikhs had become complete Sikhs
with the remaining getting assimilated in the Hindu culture, the
provision of Sehajdhari Sikh had become irrelevant.
Sarna demanded
that SGPC chief Avtar Singh Makkar and the executive committee
should quit following their failure to safeguard Sikh interests and
appear before Akal Takht to seek pardon for endorsing the new
definition of Sehajdhari Sikh. “Till they do that, the entire Panth
should boycott them,” said a resolution adopted at the DSGMC
meeting.
The DSGMC said
after the 2003 notification by the Union government, the term
Sehajdhari Sikh became redundant and irrelevant and as such there
was no occasion to submit a fresh definition to the high court.
24 December
2008
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