Reserve five seats for Sikhs in J&K: SAD

Chandigarh, July 6

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The SAD today urged the Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory Delimitation Commission to reserve five seats for members of the Sikh community in the Union Territory Legislative Assembly.

Party senior leader and former MP Prem Singh Chandumajra handed over a letter written by SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal to Delimitation Commission Chairman Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai (retd) in Srinagar today. The SAD has urged the commission to consider reserving three seats for the Sikh community in Jammu and two seats in Srinagar. The commission assured to consider the demand sympathetically, a SAD press release said.

In the letter, Sukhbir said: “Several times, the Sikhs were promised that they would reserve a definite number of seats for members of the community in the J&K legislature on the pattern of the Anglo-Indian community in Parliament and State Assemblies. Sadly, the then Congress government did not honour any of the promises made to the Sikh community post-Partition”.

Meanwhile, Chandumajra while apprising the Commission members about the entire issue said the Sikh community had a rich historical and cultural association with J&K. He said J&K was at one time part of the Sikh empire. — TNS