Sehajdhari Party Not Withdrawing Voting Right Case, Slams SGPC President

The Sehajdhari Sikh Party has cleared up that it is not drawing back the voting right case in SC.

P S Ranu, national president of the party, stated, “Sehajdharis are the respondent party in the case as the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak group (SGPC) lodged the special leave appeal in the SC.”

The national president of the party alleged that an agreement between the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Sehajdharis was displeasing Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee president Avtar Singh Makkar as the latter was worried of mislaying his position considering the Punjab and Haryana high court’s verdict.

He stated that a complete bench of the high court had carried on Sehajdharis’ voting right by invalidating the union home ministry’s notice that averted them from voting in the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee polls.

Ranu added that Makkar desired the Sehajdhari Sikh Party to extend the case in the apex court as he was carrying on as the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee president only because of SC’s orders.

The Sehajdhari Sikh Party will never compromise on the cost of their voting right and their aim is to reinstate the right of their society that they have succeeded.

He clarified that the apex court had not yet allowed stay on the high court’s decision.