Gurdwara Act is crucial to hold the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management
Committee elections, which the Supreme Court wants before December 31.
The Delhi government is pushing hard to pass the much-debated and
amended Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Act in the Assembly winter session,
beginning Tuesday.
The legislation is important because it will set the norms for
elections to the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC). The
Supreme Court had ordered elections to the DSGMC before December 31.
Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal had criticised
the amendments to the Act, alleging that the Congress government in
Delhi was “meddling” with religious affairs of the Sikhs and trying to
foist its loyalists into the gurdwara committee.
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit refuted the allegations. “We have
proposed changes to the Act to increase transparency and would like to
hold elections to the DSGMC under the amended Act. The elections will be
held before the deadline of December 31, but we might ask the Supreme
Court to give us more time if required,” she said.
She said the amendments would be tabled in the winter session of the Assembly.
Senior Delhi government officials said Lieutenant-Governor
Tejendra Khanna last week gave his consent to the amendments and sent
the returned the file to the government. “We will now send it to the
Union Home Ministry, which has to clear the amendments before they can
be tabled in the Assembly,” an official said.
The amendments seek to directly elect the DSGMC president. At present, members of the executive elect the committee chief.
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