The Supreme Court has agreed to examine whether the Sikh community are a minority in the Punjab ‘homeland’.
A Constitution bench had initially countered the plea by senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi for treating Sikhs as a minority in Punjab by asking:
Can Muslims be treated as minority in Jammu and Kashmir? For that matter, can Christians, who are the majority in the states of Nagaland and Meghalaya, be also treated as a minority community in these two northeastern states? Sikhs may be a minority in other states but can they be treated as a minority group in Punjab?
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