Voter registration for SGPC poll to begin next month

Chandigarh: The registration of voters for elections to the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), considered the mini-parliament of Sikhs, will begin on June one.

The work of enrolment of voters will continue for 45 days starting from June one, a Gurdwara Election Commission spokesman said here today.

The elections to 170 members of the total 185 of SGPC is held every five years. The elections for general house are due since last year, he said.

As specified in section 49 of the Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1925, a person should be more than twenty-one years of age and a Keshadhari Sikh (bearded Sikh) to be a voter in the SGPC poll, he said.

PTI