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Are Sikhs a Minority in Punjab? Supreme Court to Adjudicate

The Supreme Court has agreed to examine whether the Sikh community was a minority in the ‘homeland’ of Punjab.

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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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