Sikligar Community Sukhbir deputes delegation to Madhya Pradesh for addressing Sikligar community grievances
Chandigarh/UNI: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday debuted a five-member party delegation to visit Madhya Pradesh to assist the Sikligar community which claims to be unduly harassed and victimized by the Madhya Pradesh police forcing them to even leave their homes and take shelter in forests.
In a statement here, Badal said Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) President Manjinder Singh Sirsa would head the delegation which would meet members of the Sikligar community as well as police and civil administration to verify all the facts of the case and try to resolve the grievances of the community.
Members of the Sikligar community claim that they have been ignored for decades and even been implicated in criminal cases.
More than 35,000 Sikligars live in Madhya Pradesh along the Narmada River.
They are finding it difficult to make ends meet because they were not given land grants or jobs due to which their economic condition is extremely poor.
The SAD chief said the party deputation would also take up the issue of rehabilitation of the Sikligar community which was presently marginalized and even discriminated against.
“We will pursue a package to bring them back into the national mainstream”, he added.
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