Driving Naari Programme launched in Chandigarh
* More than seven lakh sehajdhari sikhs will play a
decissive role in Delhi elections
Chandigarh, Delhi elections have been a focus of minorities as the population of Muslims, Sikhs and Christians mainly become a vital factor for winability. Though Punjabis and Sikhs constitute 30 percent of the vote bank but actual Sikh population is just 5% of the total population which has always been a decisive factor. Refering to a report published in an english daily the Sehajdhari Sikh Party chief Dr.Paramjeet Singh Ranu said that the BJP is harping on the Akali Dal’s claim for fetching 30% of Sikhs and Punjabi voters which is contradictory as a fact 80 percent of these voters are the Sehajdhari Sikhs.
He said that according to the Govt. census report 2014 the total population of NCR Delhi is 17,838,842 and 5% of this are the Sikhs which comes out to be 9 lakh approximately and further interesting fact about the Sikh minority is that 80% of this Sikh population are the Sehajdhari Sikhs Sikh which comes out to be 7.5 lakh approximately. It’s a matter of record that there were only 4 lakh 10 thousand Sikh voters enrolled during the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Elections by the Gurdwara Election Commission. Majority of them were the females who were non baptized with shorn hairs. Majority of the Sikh voters are the Sehajdhari Sikhs who shall play a fate deciding role in the Delhi elections he added.
Dr.Ranu said that Sehajdhari Sikh Party is a regd. political party by the Election Commission of India and had been supporting the AAP in Punjab and Delhi previously but now the party is yet to take a decision for extending its support in this bye elections. Sehajdhari Sikhs have been favouring Jan lokpal and were supporters of Anna Hazzare. It’s a fact that whom so ever the Sehajdhari Sikhs had supported in the past have been benefited. In 2004 Lok Sabha elections they supported Manmohan Singh being a Sehajdhari Sikh and in 2007 they supported SAD Badal, in 2009 again supported Manmohan Singh , in 2011 the SGPC and SAD opposed them in Gurdwara elections and hence they supported INC. Last year during Lok Sabha Elections the Sehajdharis supported AAP in Punjab which got its four MPs though it could not even open an account elsewhere in the country. Now in 2014 in Haryana the Hooda Govt. ignored the Sehajdharis in the newly formed HSGMC and hence the Sehajdharis supported the BJP which gained power.
Dr.Ranu said that Sehajdhari Sikhs are those non baptized Sikhs who are with shorn hairs and go to beauty parlours and saloons and their number is much more than the baptized amritdhari or keshdhari Sikhs in Delhi and these Sikhs have no other religion. They shall play a decisive role in the Delhi bye elections now.
