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New Delhi, Oct 18 (IANS) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday called on Sikhs across the world to identify, expose and defeat a deep-rooted conspiracy to gain control of Sikh religious institutions and render the Khalsa Panth completely leaderless.
Addressing a seminar organized by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) here to commemorate the 350th martyrdom anniversary of the ninth Guru, Guru Teg Bahadur Sahib, Badal said the country desperately needs to follow the footsteps of Guru Sahib and uphold the values of secularism, human rights and civil liberties, for which he has taken a unique and supreme step. To give up.
“Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib is the only example in the world of a great religious man who sacrificed his life to protect a religion which was not his own. The country needs to follow Guru Sahib as the greatest symbol of religious tolerance and communal harmony.”
Emphasizing that Guru Sahib stands for secularism and protection of human rights, Badal said these beliefs were also the cornerstone of SAD governments, with Parkash Singh Badal always being mindful of these values to ensure 15 years of peace and communal harmony in the state.
Badal warned that the nefarious games being played to weaken the Khalsa Panth as well as the Panthic institutions could prove to be extremely dangerous for peace and communal harmony.
“The Khalsa Panth is today under an unprecedented ideological and political attack. Powerful elements in the country have resorted to the age-old strategy of trying to gain control over the three top religio-political institutions of the Sikhs – Sri Akal Takht Sahib, SGPC and SAD – by luring opportunistic traitors within the community and sponsoring their vicious social and mainstream media campaigns to defame the Akali leadership. Misled the Sikh people.
“What we are witnessing in Punjab in the last almost 13 years is the unfolding of a conspiracy of misinformation to mislead the community. The aim of these anti-Sikh conspirators and their sycophants is to deny the Sikhs the right to serve their holy places through their own democratically elected religious representatives. Their ultimate aim is to weaken and destroy the separate identity of the Khalsa Panth by gaining control over our sacred historical pilgrimage sites. It is being run according to the design of non-Sikhs,” said Badal.
–IANS
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