AMRITSAR: Promising to end days of
confrontation and confusion, the Shiromani Gurdwara
Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) said on Friday that it would
submit an amended affidavit on the definition of
Sehajdhari Sikh in the Punjab and Haryana high court.
Speaking to TOI immediately after a
meeting
of high priests and heads of various Sikh sects, including
nihang organizations, sant samaj and chief Khalsa Diwan,
SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar said, "This amendment
will have the definition of Sehajdhari Sikh as mentioned
in the Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1925."
However, even as Makkar claimed the document would be
submitted after considering legal opinion on certain
clauses in the Act, Damdami Taksal head Harnam Singh
Khalsa said, "There is no concept of Sehajdhari Sikh in
Sikhism. The term only came up during the drafting of Sikh
Gurdwara Act, 1925."
He went on to add that the Sikh leaders who attended the
meeting were of view that no court could take decision on
religious issues of a community. Sources, however,
admitted that "these were out of text discussions".
