Tribune News Service
Amritsar January 2
Members of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) observed ‘Ros Divas’ in protest against the incidents of sacrilege here on Sunday.
They lodged their protest at Manji Sahib Diwan Hall in the Golden Temple complex. They unanimously demanded a probe by a sitting judge of the High Court in the recent sacrilege attempt at the Golden Temple.
Akal Takht’s officiating Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh said conspiracies were being hatched to weaken the Khalsa Panth and its unique religious ideology was being targeted through sacrilege incidents and communal polarisation. Citing the attempt at the Golden Temple on December 18, he said had the accused been successful in committing sacrilege, a narrative would have been spread that the SGPC could not guard the sanctum sanctorum at the Golden Temple. “We analysed the incident with some Sikh intellectuals to zero in on the fact that it was designed to weaken the SGPC and SAD which governs it, but in vain,” he said.
He appealed to the Sikh community to unite on one platform against such forces and strengthen the Akal Takht and the SGPC.
Ex-CM Parkash Singh Badal said the atmosphere of peace and communal harmony was being harmed. SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal said despite nabbing culprits, who had committed sacrileges at Anandpur Sahib on September 13 and the Golden Temple on December 15 (when ‘Gutka Sahib’ was torn and thrown into the sarovar), the government did nothing to uncover the conspiracy.
Sacrilege: SAD, SGPC observe 'Ros Divas'
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