Chandigarh, Sept 5: In view of the high court ruling which allowed Sehajdharis the right to vote in SGPC elections, the Sehajdhari Sikh Federation has appealed to other organisations of the community to maintain peace and keep faith in the verdict of the judiciary.
“The voting rights of the Sehajdhari Sikhs was restored but unfortunately the Union Home Ministry made a U-turn and the Home Minister claimed in Parliament that the standing counsel was not their counsel. He was not having any directions from the government to withdraw the impugned notification,” Federation chief Paramjeet Singh Ranu said here on Sunday.
“Anyhow if the Union Government files the review to recall the order, we are ready to get it decided legally on merits by the court as we have full faith in judiciary,” he said.
Meanwhile, the SAD wondered why Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh was losing his sleep over the issue of voting rights to Sehajdharis.
“Will the man who likes to be addressed as a maharaja explain his sudden fondness for the Sehajdharis right in the thick of the SGPC poll campaign? If he is not interested in the SGPC poll or has no stakes in its outcome, then why is losing his sleep on the subject and issuing hourly statements on the Sehajdhari issue,” Shiromani Akali Dal president and Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal said.
Badal asked PPCC leader Amarinder Singh to get a CBI or judicial inquiry ordered by his party's government at the Centre to prove his sincerity on claims about his non-involvement in the high drama in Punjab and Haryana High Court over the SGPC elections.
“Whom is he trying to fool? His defence of the rights of Sehajdharis and his constant obsession with the thumping progress of the SAD in the SGPC poll campaign are tell-tale proofs of his political frustration,” the deputy chief minister remarked. PTI
