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Petty-minded people trying to divide Punjab on race, caste, identities: Jakhar
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Historic new memorial to Sikh soldiers officially unveiled in Wolverhampton
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JALANDHAR: With the state assembly elections now only months away, all political parties are opening promising prominence to communities and castes. With Jat Sikhs already assured dominance in state politics, BJP is pledging power to Dalits, which SAD is countering with Hindu and Dalit deputy chief ministers. Even with internal strife bubbling over, the Congress too is trying to strike communal balance.
While parties talk like they are inventing social engineering in Punjab, the fact remains that these safety valves already exist. For example, heads of two most important and highest Sikh institutions come from so called lower castes. Giani Harpreet Singh, acting Jathedar of Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of Sikhs, comes from scheduled caste (SC) background. Similarly, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee president Bibi Jagir Kaur comes from backward class (BC) background.
Punjab: Badal government let off dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim, but in 2007, says lawyer to jathedar | Ludhiana News
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30 Jun 2021
A coalition of Indian Sikh leaders demanded the Indian federal territory of Jammu and Kashmir enact laws against “love jihad,” or the alleged forced conversion of non-Muslim women to Islam by Muslim men, this week after unconfirmed reports emerged that Muslim men had “forced” Sikh women to convert to Islam, the Quint reported on Wednesday.
“A delegation of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) led by its president Manjinder Singh Sirsa, arrived in [the Jammu and Kashmir city of] Srinagar on Sunday, 27 June, and staged a protest in the city,” the Quint reported on June 30. The group of Sikh leaders from India’s National Capital Territory, Delhi which administers Jammu and Kashmir urged Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to promote a new law that would ban forced religious conversions as a pretext for inter-faith marriages.