The amendments in the order came after a Sikh employee wearing a ‘kirpan’ was stopped from performing duty at the Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport in Amritsar last week.Reacting to the incident, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Harjinder Singh Dhami raised an objection and wrote a letter to Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia to revoke the order.
In the letter, he had mentioned, “In their own country, this discrimination is a major attack on the religious freedom of the Sikhs, which will never be allowed to be implemented. The Centre should never forget that the Sikhs have remained at the forefront in making sacrifices for the freedom of this country and if the culture of the country survives today, it is because of the Sikhs”.
