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Chandigarh, Nov 24 (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Monday urged the Center and the Punjab government to stop their unholy and greedy acts and tendencies of interfering in the religious affairs of the Sikhs and usurping control of Sikh institutions and shrines, including the holy shrines of the Khalsa Panth at Huzur Sahib and Patna Sahib.
“Seizing the control of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (DSGMC) from the Sikh Sangat through conspiracies and forcibly dividing the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) by setting up a separate body in Haryana is not the right way to pay tribute to the great Guru Sahib, who made the ultimate sacrifice against religious interference and oppression,” said the Akali Dal resolution passed at a special meeting of the party’s core committee here.
“Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib made the supreme and unparalleled sacrifice to prevent government interference and repression in the religious beliefs, practices and affairs of other religions. It is a great irony that the governments at the Center and in Maharashtra, Bihar and Haryana are committing the same sin of religious interference and repression against which the great Guru sacrificed his life.”
“It is unbelievable that today governments are following the same Aurangzeb mentality against Guru Sahib in his own country and against the people who follow the faith of the great Guru Sahib.”
After the meeting in which the resolution was passed, Akali Dal president Sukhbir Badal said, “It is very good that the entire country is paying tribute to the great Guru Sahib. But these tributes and celebrations will seem sincere only if the Center as well as the governments of Bihar, Maharashtra, Delhi, Haryana and other states stop their ongoing interference in Sikh religious affairs and attacks on Sikh religious institutions and holy Gurudhams.”
Badal said the Centre’s latest move to abrogate Punjab’s authority by making Chandigarh a regular Union Territory, its attempt to end the democratic system in Panjab University and take it under central control, besides reducing Punjab’s control over the Bhakra Beas Management Board is also an injustice to Punjab.
Asserting that Punjab has unwavering rights over Chandigarh, the SAD president said the SAD will not tolerate any attempt to snatch it away, even as he demanded transfer of the Union Territory to Punjab.
–IANS
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