SGPC failed to uplift Vanjara, Kabir Panth Sikhs: Association

Tribune News Service

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Jalandhar, October 22

The British Sikh Council UK today condemned the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) and the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) for not making any effort for the betterment of the Sikligar, Vanjara and Kabir Panth Sikhs living in states like Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.

They said around 10 crore Sikhs relating to these communities were leading a miserable life in remote villages and despite repeated reminders to the SGPC and the DSGMC, the Sikh bodies failed take the rightful action.

Addressing mediapersons here today, Tarsem Singh Deol, council spokesperson and Harpal Singh Cheema of the Dal Khalsa, said the next generation of these communities had been deprived of education in the country. “These communities are subjected to sheer discrimination while going for admission in schools. They are not even considered as Sikhs in the census,” they added.

The council also said they had been working for the betterment of these communities since long and had constructed around 200 houses, gurdwaras and schools for them.

They urged the Panthic bodies to come forward to help these communities and make serious efforts to include these communities in the Sikh religion in the upcoming census.