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SGPC head Avtar Singh Makkar warns against separate gurdwara panel for Harayna

June 15, 2014 | By Parmjeet Singh

Amritsar, Punjab (June 14, 2014): Recent announcement made by Haryana Chief Minister Bhopinder Singh Hooda has increased the worries of Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC) president Avtar Singh Makkar and his political masters.

Hooda recently made a statement expressing his plans to create separate Gurdwara management committee for Haryana. Hooda’s statement is considered to have come in wake of upcoming state assembly elections and in wake of demand by a group of Haryana Sikhs to form separate SGPC for the Haryana.

Two days back Parkash Singh Badal urged India’s Home Minister Rajnath Singh to snub Haryana government’s plan to form separate Gurdwara committee for Sikhs in Haryana. Two such committees, SGPC and DSGMC, are currently under control of Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) led by Parkash Singh Badal and his son Sukhbir Badal. SGPC has jurisdiction to manage the affairs of historical Sikh Gurdwaras in Punjab, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana; whereas DSGMC is responsible for the management of Sikh gurdwaras in Delhi.

A groups of Sikhs from Haryana has united itself under the banner of Ad-hoc HSGPC to press the state government

Avtar Singh Makkar, president, SGPC, on June 14 condemned the statement of ad hoc Haryana Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee (HSGPC) leader Deedar Singh Nalvi regarding the formation of a separate gurdwara committee for Haryana.

In a statement, Avtar Singh Makkar said that Didar Singh Nalvi should refrain from “creating a divide among the Sikhs and playing into the hands of the Congress”.

He said a separate committee for Haryana would not be acceptable.

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Related Topics: Avtar Singh Makkar, SGPC, Sikhs in Haryana

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