If someone is trying to use jatha to promote their financial interests and if there's evidence to back that up, it's fine to stop giving them time until they stop doing that. The issue is that there are some raagis or granthis or keertan teachers of MODEST means who are not using the Jatha to make money. They're not superstar global keertanees and the resolution seems too far-reaching in covering them as well. As mentioned before, Gurmukh keertanees such as Bhai Sahib Bhai Jeevan Singh, Giani Amolak Singh and others were raagis, granthis, etc. in the past but still were not forbidden from doing keertan on jatha stages, nor should they have been prohibited. There is maybe only one person (perhaps more) who is not of modest means who is a raagi and who does keertan on jatha stage. By going after one person, you shouldn't exclude dozens who may even have good jeevans.
I think a directive should've been given out to jatha stage managers across India to ensure that keertanees have no character issues. Maybe even centralized "bans" could be directed against particular keertanees if they are a known bujjer kurahiti, etc.
At the end of the day though, there needs to be a culture shift in jatha. That's the root problem. If you go to other sangats, there is a less selfish and self-promoting and self-absorbed culture among the keertanees - this is clearly happening in the next generation. Because jatha has become international in scope, there is always going to be the problem of self-promoting people who lack good jeevans wanting to get keertan time whenever and wherever. They're not raagis but being an AKJ keertanee at major smagams is a much greater fame for these people than being a raagi. Some of these people want to force themselves on the main vaja even if it means that other worthy youth, often with better jeevans and sometimes new to jatha, don't get time to do keertan sevaa. Then when sitting on stage while other keertanees are doing keertan, they usually don't sing unless it's their friend doing keertan (almost no concept of it being sangati keertan). And you'll almost never see them sitting throughout an entire program, even if the program is only 2 hours long. I'm not attacking any person in particular. I have countless major faults of my own but I'm just pointing out the culture in the jatha that is really at a low point in many places.
I remember being at Seattle Smagam this past Summer and Bhai Dalvinder Singh was talking to the youth about how people are leaving the jatha because they're no longer feeling the same ras. They're going to tarmala, dodhra, dasam duari, etc. because they feel more pyaar, togetherness, nimrata, etc. there, even people who used to do punj pyareh seva in Jatha in the past have left according to what he was saying. This is the main challenge in jatha today, not banning raagis indiscriminately from doing keertan or banning people for simply attending at Dhadhriawale's program like he's the number one panthic villain when he's obviously not.
ਸਤਿਗੁਰਬਚਨਕਮਾਵਣੇਸਚਾਏਹੁਵੀਚਾਰੁ॥
