SAMANA: The Sehajdhari Sikh Party after withdrawing its 21 candidates from the Election fray has started campaigning in favour of the Congress Party. Addressing a Press conference at Samana in the presence of Parneet Kaur Union Minister, Dr PS Ranu National President of Sehajdhari Sikh Party campaingned for Yuvraj Raninder Singh and appealed the people of Punjab to vote and elect Congress Party in the interest of Punjab and Sikh religion.
Clarifying his party’s stand for extending support to the Congress Dr Ranu said that though the Akalis had always been blaming the Congress Party for divide and rule policy but here the Akali Dal Badal connived with the BJP-RSS in 2003 and curtailed the statutory voting right of Sehajdhari Sikhs in the SGPC elections by means of an illegal notification which was quashed by the Hon’ble Full Bench of the High Court. Its the Badals and the BJP which has been dividing the community for vote politics not the Congress. Sehajdhari Sikhs have rescued their voting right in the SGPC after a long legal battle, but facing the defeat now the Badals are planning to amend the Sikh Gurdwara Act 1925 (Punjab Act) by legislating the Sehajdhari voting issue through Vidhan Sabha, thus they want to nullify the High Court Orders in a tactful manner and that’s why it is necessary to keep these Badals away from the Vidhan Sabha in the interest of the Sehajdhari Sikhs and the Sikh community.
The Sehajdhari Sikh Party appeals to rejects the Sanjha Morcha and PPP as they are not in a position to form the Government and Sehajdhari Sikhs feel that only such largest party should be supported which is capable of giving a complete and stable Governance. This support by the Sehajdhari Sikh Party is here by extended to the INC as an un-conditional support from the Sehajdhari Sikhs on the grounds that Maharaja Amarinder Singh had been supporting the cause of the Sehajdhari Sikhs.
