Days after the Delhi Government notified the Anand Marriage Act, Sikh community has urged their Sikh leader and General Secretary, Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee Manjinder Singh Sirsa to get this Act implemented in West Bengal also. The demand was raised by Harpal Singh Johal president Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee, Baba Deep Singh, Saheed Asansol at a function to celebrate the birthday of Baba Ajit Singh, son of Guru Gobind Singh Sahib.
Johal said Sikh community of the West Bengal also needs this Act for sikh couples. Sirsa also assured that he will personally take up the issue of implementation of Anand Marriage Act in West Bengal. He said, “It is wish of the Shiromani Akali Dal, president Sukhbir Singh Badal to get the act implemented in all the States of the country and he was thankful to all the Governments who have implemented the act and hoped that the remaining states will also implement it to facilitate the Sikh couples to get their marriages registration under the Act.”