New Delhi: The Indian Embassy at France has started issuing fresh passports to Children of Sikh community residing in the country after the issue was taken up by the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) General Secretary Manjinder Singh Sirsa with the Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj.
This was disclosed by Sikh Community leaders of France including Iqbal Singh Bhatti, Cheema Begowal, Surjit Singh Mana, Harinderpal Singh besides others. These leaders have formed an orgnisation Aurore Dawn to take up cases related with Human Rights and had taken by this issue with Sirsa sometime ago.
These leaders disclosed that after they took up the issue with Sirsa, he personally took up the issue with Swaraj whereas the Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal has also sought intervention of PMO in this matter which resulted in resolving the impasse.
They disclosed that not only new passports are now being issue to children of sikh community but the Embassy has also assured to issue new passports to those families whose heads have Refugee status and have no case registered against them in India and they want to improve their financial condition. They said that apart from these, four unknown cases in which persons had expressed desire to go back to India to their families, three of them are also under consideration and likely to be cleared by Embassy.
These French leaders expressed gratitude to Sirsa and said that this has become possible only because of intervention of Sukhbir Badal and Sirsa.
Sirsa assured these community leaders that the SAD under the leadership of Sukhbir Singh Badal was committed to work for the betterment of community and will always be at the forefront to resolve the problems, if any, being faced by the community members throughout the world.