Shiromani Akali Dal (Taksali) president and Khadoor Sahib MP Ranjit Singh Brahmpura on Monday visited the historical Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Tarn Taran to express his anguish and pain after the alleged attempt of kar sewa and office bearers of the Gurdwara management committee to demolish the historical darshani deodi of the Gurdwara on the night of March 30.
Brahmpura termed the incident as “very unfortunate, shocking, painful and a sin committed by the responsible members of Gurdwara management in the garb of night and approval of SGPC”.
“These kind of sacrileges are taking place since the Badal family has taken full control of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC). Badals have politicized SGPC for personal and political gains,” he alleged. Coming down heavily on the Badal family, Brahmpura alleged that the Badals use SGPC to make some deals, “and I also suspect some kind of deal behind this incident as well because the demolition work of the deodi started at night to avoid public wrath”.
SAD (Taksali) senior vice-president and former MP Dr Ratan Singh Ajnala said that his party would explore all legal options before it to get a criminal case registered against the persons involved in the work of demolition of the deodi.
“We shall explore options to get a case registered in this regard, but as the courts of law take longer time to decide such cases, I demand that persons behind the demolition of historical deodi be summoned to Akal Takht Sahib and excommunicated from the panth,” he said.