Amandeep Sandhu » Amritdhari https://www.amandeepsandhu.com Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:10:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 The Caravan: The question of Sehajdhari rights is also a question of Sikh identity https://www.amandeepsandhu.com/?p=946 https://www.amandeepsandhu.com/?p=946#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2016 01:55:11 +0000 aman http://www.amandeepsandhu.com/?p=946 Friends, who is a Sikh?

The recent move by the Rajya Sabha to forbid Sehajdhari Sikhs from voting in the SGPC elections tells us that around 70 lakh Sikhs in Punjab and around 1 crore Sikhs all over the world are now ‘patit’ – heretics, apostates, and hence no longer Sikhs.

I wonder how the Sikh community feels about it but one thing is clear: anyone who has ever touched a scissor to his/her body is no longer a Sikh. The SGPC has effectively removed one third of the community population making Sikhs a minority in Punjab, like elsewhere.

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