Tribune News Service
GS Paul
Amritsar, June 5
Akal Takht has directed the SGPC to ensure that the sanctity of the Golden Temple’s atmosphere mustn’t be disturbed in the course of the commemoration of Operation Bluestar anniversary. It falls on June 6 yearly.
While giving a reference of Five High Priests’ assembly held on July 18, 2006, Jaspal Singh, private assistant of Akal Takht officiating Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh, has written to the Secretary, SGPC, that protecting in view the Golden Temple’s inviolability, the resolution handed beneath the signatures of the then Jathedar Giani Joginder Singh, be implemented in toto, as per the instructions of the Akal Takht.
The five High Priests’ resolution reads that neither ‘professional’ nor ‘anti’ slogans be raised in the parikrama (circumambulatory path) of the Golden Temple on the event. Similarly, the media individuals ought to chorus from taking interviews, bytes or questioning any individual belonging to any group or celebration. However, they may do the identical exterior the parikrama of the Shrine.
Akal Takht Secretariat has additionally enclosed the copy of the Five High Priests’ resolution with the letter despatched to the SGPC.
Secretary, SGPC, Partap Singh confirmed that the letter was acquired from the Akal Takht Secretariat which has been forwarded to the Golden Temple supervisor to provoke steps to preserve peace in the Golden Temple complex in the course of the programme.
In the backdrop, activists of assorted Sikh radical organisations assemble on the Akal Takht on the event and lift slogans which typically arouse the feelings that led to clashes on sure events in the previous.
Sikh activists conduct march
Meanwhile, the Sikh activists beneath the banner of Dal Khalsa performed ‘’genocide remembrance parade’” by way of the lanes of Amritsar carrying Khalistani flags, pictures of broken Akal Takhat and Sikh fighters, declares June 6 as a Khalistan Day.Leaders andrepresentatives of Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar), Damdami Taksal, Akhand Kirtni Jatha, Waris Punjab De (Talwara), Panth Sevak Jatha, Akali Dal United participated in the march.
Covering 5 kms of the gap the March began from Burj Akali Phoola Singh, beneath the nomenclature of Holocaust remembrance parade,culminated on the Golden Temple the place Ardas was carried out in the reminiscence of all these killed in the course of the military assault.
The celebration has given a name for Amritsar bandh tomorrow to mark the event. The activists appealed to the individuals to cooperate with the one-day ‘shutdown’ name.
Security tightened up
Nonetheless, the safety has been tightened up in the holy metropolis with round 5000 police personnel together with 4 firms of paramilitary forces, have been pressed into service, in and across the Golden Temple and on the roads main to the Shrine.
Giani Harpreet Singh would ship the customary message to the Sikh group from the rostrum of the Akal Takht. Sikh activist Jarnail Singh Sakhira mentioned that Dhyan Singh Mand, parallel performing Jathedar appointed throughout 2015 controversial Sarbat Khalsa congregation, too has scheduled to go to and skim out handle on the event whereas standing on the ground forward of the Akal Takht. “We held the conferences with the DCP Parminder Singh Bhandal and guaranteed to conduct our programme in a peaceable method. It is a pity that the entire Golden Temple complex, together with the Akal Takht, has been cordoned off by the police main to inconvenience to the devotees.
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