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Amritsar, July 09, 2023 (PPI-OT): The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), on behalf of the Sikh community, has registered strong opposition declaring the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) proposed by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Indian government as unnecessary in the country. After a serious discussion about the UCC in the SGPC’s Executive Committee (EC) meeting presided over by its President Harjinder Singh Dhami, it has been decided that there is no need for UCC in the country.
Speaking to the media after the meeting, Harjinder Singh Dhami said there is an apprehension among the minorities in the country regarding the Uniform Civil Code that this code will hurt their identity, originality, and principles. On the issue of UCC, the SGPC has constituted a sub-committee of Sikh intellectuals, historians, scholars, and lawyers, which at the preliminary stage considered the UCC as suppression for the existence of minorities, their religious rites, traditions, and culture.
Harjinder Singh Dhami said any challenge to bani bana (Gurbani and traditional Sikh attire), bol baale (words or thoughts which are sublime or supreme as well as high and true), principles, traditions, values, lifestyle, culture, independent existence and distinct entity of Sikhs can never be accepted and the Sikh Maryada (code of conduct) cannot be tested by the worldly law. Therefore, the Sikh community opposes the UCC. He also said that the 21st Law Commission had also rejected the UCC terming it as neither desirable nor feasible.
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