Chandigarh: As per media reports the Punjab government has lined up about 14 bills that are set to be presented during the Vidhan Sabha session beginning on Thursday.
It includes a Bill to frame rules for the registration of Sikh marriages (Anand Karaj) under the Anand Marriage Act. Though the Anand Marriage (Amendment) Act, 2012, was passed by Parliament, the marriages of Sikhs cannot be registered separately till the state government frames its own rules under Section 6 of the Act. Haryana has already notified the registration of Sikh marriages under the Anand Marriage Act.
Notably, the Indian parliament had amended the Anand Marriage Act, 1909 in 2012 to provide for registration of Sikh marriages under the Act.
It may be recalled here that after 1947 when current Indian state came into being and Hindu personal law was being codified in 1955-56, Sikhs were wrongfully treated as Hindus and Hindu personal law was imposed on Sikhs.
The 2012 amendment in Anand Marriage Act provides only for registration of Sikh marriages and so far as the other aspects of the personal law are concerned, the imposition of Hindu code on Sikhs would remain intact.
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