De­liv­er­ing a judge­ment to­day, re­served since 18 Sep­tem­ber, re­ject­ing the Badal Dal plea for fresh elec­toral rolls, Jus­tice Jayant Nath of the Delhi High Court has or­dered that the elec­tions to the gen­eral house of the Delhi Sikh Gur­d­wara Man­age­ment Com­mit­tee, be held prior to 31 March 2020, with re­vi­sion of the 37-year-old elec­toral rolls un­der which the elec­tions were held on the past two oc­ca­sions, even though the Di­rec­torate of Gur­d­wara Elec­tions, Gov­ern­ment of Delhi, had wil­fully not fol­lowed Delhi High Court and Supreme Court or­ders since 2012.

Dis­pos­ing of a clutch of pe­ti­tions, in­clud­ing the main pe­ti­tion of the Badal Dal seek­ing mak­ing of fresh voter rolls, Jus­tice Jayant Nath of the Delhi High Court, called the bluff of the Badal Dal by cit­ing the fact that at one of the re­cent meet­ings con­vened by the Di­rec­torate of Gur­d­wara Elec­tions, the Badal Dal, of­fi­cially known as Shi­ro­mani Akali Dal (Delhi State),” had given its con­sent in the said meet­ing for re­vi­sion of elec­toral rolls.”

The Paramjit Singh Sarna-led Shi­ro­mani Akali Dal Delhi had pe­ti­tioned the court that the elec­tions must be held in time.  One of the Sarna broth­ers’ duo Harvin­der Singh Sarna has al­leged that the 2017 DS­GMC polls were rigged as the then Di­rec­tor Gur­d­wara Elec­tions had given the Badal Dal a free run to use bo­gus votes to win the elec­tions.

Even though the Di­rec­torate of Gur­d­wara Elec­tions, in a clever man­ner, cov­ered up their past in­ac­tions by telling the court that it was will­ing to pre­pare fresh voter rolls, but that would take al­most a year, Delhi High Court judge Jus­tice Jayant Nath, ac­cepted their plea to carry out re­vi­sions within six months and per­mit them to carry out the nec­es­sary elec­tions to the Com­mit­tee.

Like in the past, this time around too, the Delhi High Court asked the Gov­ern­ment of Delhi to en­sure that fresh elec­toral rolls are pre­pared much in ad­vance of the next elec­tions in 2025.

Will the Badal Dal ap­peal this or­der in the Supreme Court of In­dia by hir­ing ex­pen­sive lawyers at the cost of the San­gat funds?  Will the Di­rec­torate of Gur­d­wara Elec­tions start the elec­toral re­vi­sion process with­out de­lay? This will de­ter­mine the course of the DS­GMC Elec­tions 2021.

Will the Badal Dal ap­peal this or­der in the Supreme Court of In­dia by hir­ing ex­pen­sive lawyers at the cost of the San­gat funds?  Will the Di­rec­torate of Gur­d­wara Elec­tions start the elec­toral re­vi­sion process with­out de­lay? This will de­ter­mine the course of the DS­GMC Elec­tions 2021.

The Badal Dal seems to be pretty con­fi­dent that it would get the elec­tions de­layed, hence their chief is busy with build­ing the BJP plat­form at the Sikh ex­pense and the ex­ec­u­tive com­mit­tee is ig­nor­ing the Guru Harkr­is­han Pub­lic Schools stale­mate.

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— Jag­mo­han Singh (@thewsned­i­tor) Oc­to­ber 12, 2020

Mean­while, var­i­ous op­po­si­tion par­ties like the Paramjit Singh Sarna-led Shi­ro­mani Akali Dal Delhi, the Man­jit Singh GK-led Jago Party, the Bhai Ran­jit Singh-led Akal Sa­hai Wel­fare So­ci­ety, the Baldev Singh Wadala-led Sad­hb­hawna Dal, the Aam Akali Dal and the Pan­thic Sewa Dal are out in the field en­rolling mem­bers and scout­ing for can­di­dates in 46 con­stituen­cies of Delhi.

Ap­peal­ing to the Sikh elec­torate of Delhi, Harvin­der Singh Sarna ap­pealed to the Sikh San­gat to make fresh votes and fully par­tic­i­pate in the elec­toral process.