Punjab High Court Gives Voting Rights To Sehajdhari Sikhs In Sgpc

[Singh, Mahan]

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Punjab and Haryana High Court gives Sehajdhari Sikhs right to vote in SGPC elections.

(From it the inference appears to be that the recently held SGPC election would be voided )

source :

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/HC-restores-voting-rights-of-Sehajdhari-Sikhs-in-SGPC-Polls/articleshow/11179595.cms

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[JasSinghKhalsa]

So, who all will be deemed to be qualified as a Sehajdhari Sikh, how will all this work?

[JSinghnz]

This is most shocking. This judgement should be condemned by every Sikh all around the world. This judgement will give the Patits to change the whole concept of Sikhism. Our identity of being a Sikh has been challenged here. There should be huge protests against this direct attack on us. This is a very serious issue which needs a united stand by all Jathebandis and Sikh organisations.

[Only five]

Sehajdhari is a person who is from a different religion or no religion and the person is slowly moving forward into Sikhi, who has already accepted the Ten Gurus and Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji Maharaj as his Guru, and has stopped cutting hair and holds no bonds with any other religion.

A person born in a Sikh family is a Sikh and if they have cut their hair, then they are still SIkh, but patit. They are not sehajdhari in any shape or form because they were already born in a Sikh family and were given the instuctions to keep hair uncut. But they cut their hair and for that, they have become patit. An Amritdhari that has committed any of the bujjar kurehats is also still a Sikh, but patit.

Patit is not a different religion within Sikhi, but a title given to a person once they commit an action against the hukam of Guru Sahib. When a person who is patit, corrects their action, then they can be given equal rights as other Sikhs who are not patit. In order for a Sikh who has gone patit to correct their actions, they would have to take Amrit from the Punj Pyare.

The amount of Sehajdharis in Punjab today is probably no more than 50 people. Rest of the Sikhs are patit or Amritdharis or Keshdharis. But yet when the elections come the actual definition will be ignored and for dirty political reasons the patits will be included into Sehajdhari.

[JasSinghKhalsa]

Program on Sangat TV right now ...

[pedrorizzo]

this is very dangerous for sikhs and must be challenged

[KhalistaniGunMan]

i just dont get it..if mone sikhs want to influence sikh religous thought so much...man up and take amrit..why would they want to challenge the very hukams of guru gobind singh ji maharaj...its like they are cherry picking what they like..trying to mould sikhi into how they think works for them...drink alcohol, eat meat, sleep around with women, smoke ciggarettes, dont wake up at amritvela...dont do naam simran...dont read gurbani....but YET WANT TO HAVE A HAND IN LEADING THE PANTH...i dont think sikhs can take another century of this kind of bombardment on our faith...where we will be in a 100 years..only waheguru knows..but it doesnt look good

[Jallebi]

I find the new make up of SGPC astonishing, how can the DamDami Taksal “Jathedar” could give siroppa and now be in bed with Badal and BJP. Dhumma and SantSamaj should have spoken up against Badal becoming Panth Rattan – bring on a new election but not just people of Punjab but why not make it international!

[S1ngh]

Their definition of shehajdhari Sikh is absolutely wrong. hair cutters or monay are patits not sehajdhari. Sehajdhari Sikhs are keshdhari from non-sikh household and who haven't taken Amrit yet. HC ruling maybe right but the only problem is that patits are wearing false mask of sehajdhari Sikhs in order to disturb Sikh institutions. Once the case of correct definition is presented then these fakes won't have a leg to stand.

Search 'sehajdhari' on YouTube and there you will find videos of s. phoolka and s. lamba debate with founder of sehajdhari party. There are many parts of the video and they really quashed this fake sehajdhari party whose mission is to infiltrates Sikh institutions by votes of Hindus, Muslims and so on..

[JSinghnz]

SGPC have made it very clear as under.

- Members of the SGPC executive, led by its president Avtar Singh, today laid down the definition of a Sehajdhari Sikh.

Sticking to the definition given in the Sikh Gurdwara Act 1925, the committee members have stated that Sehajdhari Sikhs are those who are born in non-Sikh families, but follow the tenets of Sikhism. A Sehajdhari Sikh is thus a non-Sikh who performs ceremonies according to Sikh rites; who does not use tobacco, does not consume halal meat in any form; who is not a “patit” and who recites the mulmantra of Guru Granth Sahib.

In the resolution passed during a meeting held this evening, the SGPC pointed out that the definition of Sehajdhari given in the Section 2 (10-A) of the Gurdwara Act states that the word “sehajdhari” consists of two words “sehaj” (slowly) and “dhari” (adopt a religious path) and hence these are those novices who slowly move on the path of Sikhism to adopt its doctrine, ethics and tenets.

A Sehajdhari, therefore, is one who has entered the path of Sikhism and he will continue to be a Sehajdhari Sikh till he fully accepts the moral and spiritual vows of Sikhism, to be called a practicing Sikh. The SGPC resolution also made it clear that when a Sehajdhari Sikh becomes a keshdhari Sikh, but he chooses to trim his body hair, he will not be a Sehajdhari Sikh. Similarly, if a person born into a Sikh family (and is a Sikh), but chooses to disrespect his keshdhari roop he will not turn into a Sehajdhari Sikh but become a “patit”.

So the disrespect to kesh makes a person born into a Sikh family a PATIT. If these persons cannot respect their identity, they have no right for any

voting rights in SGPC. It is as simple as that.