Ultimately Honorable Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh has pronounced that only those people can call themselves as Sikhs who keep their hair unshorn and all those who are cutting or shaving their hair from any part of their body shall not be called Sikhs. I had been raising this question in a Sikh net time and again and when I did not stop, they stopped my entry in that net permanently. And now a High Court has confirmed that all those who are cutting or shaving their hair from any part of the body cannot include themselves in the Sikh community.
When I was putting such question in the net, they were objecting to the questions because there was no answer. It must be accepted that there is none on this earth who is maintaining all the traditions of Sikhism. They are violating the norms one way or the other. It is on record that some people are joining the religious wing of the Sikhs taking this wing as a profession, trade, calling and employment and it must be accepted that some Sikh deras have turned so rich that they are running their own governments. And since money brings with it so many sins, most of the Sikh deras are under clouds.
It must be accepted that even Sikh ladies are not maintaining hair of all parts of the body and they too use some shaving measures to avoid undesired hair to keep themselves in tune with the new civilization. Most of the Sikh youths have turned clean-shaven and some of them half-clean-shaven. When the people from Census Department come most of the people who are declaring themselves as Sikhs are not actually bearing hair on all parts of their body, but the people from the Census Department have to write or record what the man says to them. But after this High Court Verdict, the people shall have to bear at-least hair on outer parts of the body to declare themselves as Sikhs and otherwise the people from the Census Department would not write them as Sikhs.
Therefore, time has come when the SGPC, Sri Akal Takht Sahib and some other Sikh organizations must sit and think over this matter and must come out with a new definition which may include clean-shaven, Semi Clean-shaven and people who are removing hair on hidden parts of their body as Sikhs only when they are believing and carrying out teachings of the great Gurus contained in Sri Guru Granth sahib ji because it has become not only difficult but impossible to ask the Sikhs not to remove hair. This task would not attained by the Sikh organization in spite of the fact that they had been working on the old plans time and again.
They have already failed and therefore, now, the new definition is the only alternative with them. So immediately, without any further delay, they must come with the new definition so that this definition could help the Sikh Community in Census and in voting for SGPC. If we continue as in present, the Sikhs shall go down in number and they shall face difficulty in calling themselves as a nation. The number, as could be estimated shall go down to thousands and such a wing cannot call itself as a community or a nation.