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SGPC calls special session on separate Haryana Gurdawara committee issue
Satinder Bains
Tuesday, 04 August 2009
Executive Committee to meet on Aug 10 at Chandigarh
AMRITSAR: (11.30 PM)SGPC (Shriomani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee) president Avtar Singh Makkar on Tuesday urged the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to intervene effectively to stall the Congress party's highly ill-advised and ill-conceived move of setting up a separate Sikh Gurdwara Committee" in Haryana.
Makkar said that by setting up separate SGPC in the State of Haryana was direct intervention in the internal Affairs of Sikh community on the Part of Congress Government of Haryana.
Makkar said that keeping in view of latest move of separate SGPC by Haryana Government, it was decided to call special session of SGPC in Amritsar at the Mini Sikh Parliament on August 14 and on August 10 Executive meeting of SGPC fixed at Chandigarh to decide the further course of action to stall the move of Haryana Government.
Makkar strongly condemned the announcement made by the Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Hooda for the formation of separate SGPC from November 1 onwards this year.
It may be mentioned here that presently all the Sikh Gurdwaras (Sikh shrines) in Haryana being managed by the Amritsar based SGPC and now with the formation of separate SGPC all the management and functioning would be done by the new Haryana based SGPC to be functional from November 1 onwards this year.
Makkar said that Sikh community would not tolerate Separate Gurdwara committee in the State of Haryana and in such circumstances Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh should come forward to intervene and prohibit the Haryana Government for the formation of separate SGPC for the larger interest of Sikh community.
Makkar described the announcement of separate SGPC in Haryana by its chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was purely political motivated on the behest of Congress High Command at Delhi keeping in the view of the forth coming general assembly election in Harayana.
Makkar in a letter to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh reminded that during partition Nehru- Master Tara Singh (then Sikh leader) accord it was promised by Nehru that Government would never interfere in the internal affairs of Sikh community.
Earlier yesterday on Monday the Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal called on the Prime Minister at his residence to apprise him about the proposed ill conceived and ill mooted move of the Haryana Government to form a separate Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee to manage the Sikh Shrines in Haryana and sought his personal intervention to stop the Haryana Government from taking any such anti-Sikh decisions.
Badal during the meeting with prime minister had Badal informed that the reported move was not only fundamentally flawed in religio-political perspective but was also bad in law, precedent and practice. Besides, this was a clear cut violation of the time –honored pact between Master Tara Singh, as leader of the Sikh community and Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru as Prime Minister of India on April 8, 1959 Referring to clause 3 of the historic pact known as Nehru Tara Singh Pact; "Any amendments in the Gurdwara Act should only be undertaken after obtaining the approval of General Committee (House) of the SGPC.
A convention may be established that such approval may be by two thirds majority of the SGPC.
AMRITSAR: (11.30 PM)SGPC (Shriomani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee) president Avtar Singh Makkar on Tuesday urged the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to intervene effectively to stall the Congress party's highly ill-advised and ill-conceived move of setting up a separate Sikh Gurdwara Committee" in Haryana.
Makkar said that by setting up separate SGPC in the State of Haryana was direct intervention in the internal Affairs of Sikh community on the Part of Congress Government of Haryana.
Makkar said that keeping in view of latest move of separate SGPC by Haryana Government, it was decided to call special session of SGPC in Amritsar at the Mini Sikh Parliament on August 14 and on August 10 Executive meeting of SGPC fixed at Chandigarh to decide the further course of action to stall the move of Haryana Government.
Makkar strongly condemned the announcement made by the Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Hooda for the formation of separate SGPC from November 1 onwards this year.
It may be mentioned here that presently all the Sikh Gurdwaras (Sikh shrines) in Haryana being managed by the Amritsar based SGPC and now with the formation of separate SGPC all the management and functioning would be done by the new Haryana based SGPC to be functional from November 1 onwards this year.
Makkar said that Sikh community would not tolerate Separate Gurdwara committee in the State of Haryana and in such circumstances Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh should come forward to intervene and prohibit the Haryana Government for the formation of separate SGPC for the larger interest of Sikh community.
Makkar described the announcement of separate SGPC in Haryana by its chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was purely political motivated on the behest of Congress High Command at Delhi keeping in the view of the forth coming general assembly election in Harayana.
Makkar in a letter to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh reminded that during partition Nehru- Master Tara Singh (then Sikh leader) accord it was promised by Nehru that Government would never interfere in the internal affairs of Sikh community.
Earlier yesterday on Monday the Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal called on the Prime Minister at his residence to apprise him about the proposed ill conceived and ill mooted move of the Haryana Government to form a separate Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee to manage the Sikh Shrines in Haryana and sought his personal intervention to stop the Haryana Government from taking any such anti-Sikh decisions.
Badal during the meeting with prime minister had Badal informed that the reported move was not only fundamentally flawed in religio-political perspective but was also bad in law, precedent and practice. Besides, this was a clear cut violation of the time –honored pact between Master Tara Singh, as leader of the Sikh community and Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru as Prime Minister of India on April 8, 1959 Referring to clause 3 of the historic pact known as Nehru Tara Singh Pact; "Any amendments in the Gurdwara Act should only be undertaken after obtaining the approval of General Committee (House) of the SGPC.
A convention may be established that such approval may be by two thirds majority of the SGPC.
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