SAD urges Chandigarh UT Admin to rollback notification on helmets for women

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today urged the UT Chandigarh Administration to rollback its July 6 notification wherein helmets has been made compulsory for all women, except turbaned Sikh women.

Claiming that the Chandigarh administration's move has deeply hurt the religious sentiments of the Sikh community, SAD's senior vice president and spokesperson Daljit Singh Cheema said, "The Union Territory has absolutely no right to define or redefine the identity of a Sikh woman or to determine who is a Sikh woman in the eyes of law."
According to a release by the SAD, Cheema said, "Their (Chandigarh administration's) action in this regard is absolutely dictatorial, ill-conceived and thoughtless. How can the UT administration assume the right to change the definition of a Sikh woman which has been well laid out in the 'Sikh Rehat Maryada'(tenets)?"