AMRITSAR: Carrying on its lenient attitude toward the Sikhs, Pakistan government on Friday gave the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) formal permission to take out ...
A sub-committee of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC) will meet today to decide about 'Dastan-e-Miri-Piri' against which Sikhs are holding protests. The movie depicts the sixth Sikh Guru, Guru Hargobind Ji in violation of established principle that Sikh Gurus can not be depicted in any visual form, still or moving.
Breaking his silence over the controversy surrounding cartoon/animation movie Dastan-e-Miri-Piri, the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC) appointed Jathedar of Akal Takht Sahib Giani Harpeet Singh clarified on Sunday (May 26) that no clearance was given to the film by Akal Takht Sahib.
In this statement former IAS Gurtej Singh, Prof Gurdarshan Singh Dhillon, Jaspal Singh Sidhu, Sukhdev Singh, both journalists and Gurpreet Singh spokesman Kendri Sri Guru Singh Sabha (Chandigarh) said: “This act of so-called atonement constitutes fraud on the Sikh psyche committed at the holiest shrine of the Sikh Panth”.