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SAVE SIKHISM FROM SGPC
WSN launches Online Campaign on Sehajdhari issue
It is time to Act. Sign petition NOW.
Dear
Reader:
Acting
under influence of Panthic bodies, though the SGPC has
buckled and withdrawn its impugned affidavit on the
Sehajdhari issue, it is important to maintain the pressure
as the court proceedings are likely to continue for some
time, till the cases reaches its logical conclusion.
For new
readers, the story is like this:
Like in
many cases in the past, this time the Shiromani Gurdwara
Parbandhak Committee has bungled on the Sehajdhari issue.
Sometime
ago, a Sikh girl who had been denied admission into Guru
Ram Das Medical college on the grounds that she had shaved
her eyebrows, petitioned the Punjab and Haryana High Court,
seeking redress. The High Court did not grant her any
relief, but asked the SGPC to answer the following question,
"Whether or not a person who cuts his hair and/or shaves his
beard is a "Sehajdhari Sikh"?
The SGPC
appointed a committee of scholars and experts to formulate
an opinion. The committee agreed to stick to the 1938
resolution of the SGPC whereby, "A person cannot claim to be
a Sehajdhari by trimming/cutting his/her hair, beard or
eyebrows in any manner".
However,
under some unknown pressure or a serious lapse of
understanding, the SGPC filed an affidavit on 5 December,
2008, saying, "Once a Sehajdhari becomes a Keshadhari Sikh,
he under no circumstances by cutting/trimming his/her hair,
beard, eye-brows in any manner can claim to be a Sehajdhari
Sikh."
This
definition is fraught with danger as this would mean that
anyone and everyone can claim to be a Sahahdhari Sikh and
continue to keep cutting hair. This opens the possibility
of great mischief by allowing unprecedented numbers to
become voters for the SGPC, though in the last SGPC
elections Sahajdharis were disenfranchised. If you do not
stop this, don't be surprised if the next SGPC president is
a non-Sikh.
The online
petition initiated by World Sikh News is directed to the
President of the SGPC seeking immediate withdrawal and
corrective step.
It is time
for action. There is no point in regretting, fuming and
fretting. Let everyone stand up to set things right, well in
time. Let the SGPC know that the Sikh nation is wide awake
to its rights.
Join us by
signing the online petition. It will not take more than two
minutes.
Visit:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Sikhi/petition.html
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