PTI
Chandigarh, March 28
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday hit out at Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh for “frightening” people through an ultimatum to the AAP authorities to launch all Sikh youths in a police motion towards radical preacher Amritpal Singh and his aides.
ਜਥੇਦਾਰ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਅਕਾਲ ਤਖ਼ਤ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਜੀ.ਸਭ ਨੂੰ ਪਤਾ ਹੈ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਤੇ SGPC ਬਾਦਲਾਂ ਦਾ ਪੱਖ ਪੂਰਦੇ ਰਹੇ ਹੋ.ਇਤਿਹਾਸ ਦੇਖੋ ਕਈ ਜਥੇਦਾਰਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਬਾਦਲਾਂ ਨੇ ਆਪਣੇ ਸੁਆਰਥ ਲਈ ਵਰਤਿਆ.ਚੰਗਾ ਹੁੰਦਾ ਜੇ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਅਲਟੀਮੇਟਮ ਬੇਅਦਬੀ ਅਤੇ ਗਾਇਬ ਹੋਏ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਗੁਰੂ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਜੀ ਦੇ ਸਰੂਪਾਂ ਲਈ ਜਾਰੀ ਕਰਦੇ ਨਾ ਕਿ ਹੱਸਦੇ-ਵੱਸਦੇ ਲੋਕਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਭੜਕਾਉਣ ਲਈ
— Bhagwant Mann (@BhagwantMann) March 28, 2023
Mann accused the Jathedar of favouring the Badals and in addition instructed him that the Badals had “used” a number of Jathedars for their “vested pursuits”.
The CM instructed the Jathedar of Akal Takht, the very best temporal seat of Sikhs, that it could have been higher had he issued the ultimatum within the sacrilege and lacking ‘saroops’ of Guru Granth Sahib.
Mann’s response got here a day after the Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Harpeet Singh had given a 24-hour ultimatum to the AAP authorities to launch all Sikh youths who had been held through the police crackdown towards radical preacher Amritpal Singh and his aides.
The Jathedar additionally condemned the state authorities for invoking the National Security Act towards a couple of people through the police crackdown.
The Jathedar of Akal Takht in Amritsar had convened a particular gathering of Sikh organizations, together with intellectuals, Sikh attorneys, journalists, non secular and social leaders to focus on the present scenario in Punjab following the March 18 motion towards components of ‘Waris Punjab De’ headed by Amritpal Singh.
Lambasting the Jathedar over his ultimatum, Mann in a tweet in Punjabi mentioned, “Jathedar Sri Akal Takht Sahib ji. Everyone is aware of you and SGPC have been favouring the Badals. Look at the historical past, many Jathedars had been utilized by the Badals for their very own pursuits. It would have been higher had you given the ultimatum for the sacrilege and lacking ‘saroops’ of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji as a substitute of frightening fortunately residing people.”
The incidents associated to the theft of a ‘bir’ (copy) of the Guru Granth Sahib, placing up handwritten sacrilegious posters, and torn pages of the holy e book being discovered scattered at Bargari had taken place in Faridkot in 2015.
In one other case, 328 ‘saroops’ (copies) of Guru Granth Sahib had gone lacking from the information of the publication home of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee.
Later, the Jathedar in his Facebook submit on Tuesday mentioned, “Bhagwant Mann ji as you signify Punjab, I’m additionally a humble consultant of my ‘qaum’ (group).” “I even have the correct and my responsibility to communicate in regards to the rights of the harmless youth of my ‘qaum’,” mentioned the Jathedar.
He instructed the CM that he was proper that always “harmless” non secular people are utilized by political people.
“But I’m absolutely conscious of this,” mentioned Singh.
At the identical time, he requested Mann to watch out that political individuals like him is probably not utilized by politicians for grinding their axe.
Singh instructed the CM, “First, let’s save Punjab collectively and unite the moms ready for their harmless sons who’ve been put in jail and get their blessings,” as he was referring to the ultimatum given to the state authorities for launch of the Sikh youths.
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