Chohan serves notice to Centre for SGPC elections

CHANDIGARH: Former Khalistan ideologue Jagjit Singh Chohan has served a legal notice to the Union Home ministry for conducting elections to the general house of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandak Committee, which have been due since 2001.
The notice says that if the Centre and the State government did not initiate process for holding the elections within one month, he would move the Punjab and Haryana High Court to seek the redressal.
Under the All-India Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1925, the Union Home ministry is to get the election conducted every five years by the Gurdwara Election Commission. Incidently the Commission has already initiated the election process by preparing fresh electoral rolls.
Chohan, who still claims to be a votary of Khalistan, said the present house of the SGPC which is headed by Gurcharan Singh Tohra ,had no legal right to continue in office.
He demanded that an administrator be appointed to run the SGPC till the elections were completed.
Chohan had returned to India after remaining in the UK for more than 18 years from where he allegedly motivated the Sikh youth to participate in the Khalistan movement.
Chohan, who heads the Khalsa Raj party, said he still favoured formation of Khalistan, but was against adopting violent means for the cause.