Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday impressed upon the religious leaders in the Sate to play a proactive role in eliminating the social evils prevalent in the society.
“The spiritual leaders could play a vanguard role in curbing the menace of drugs besides other social maladies in the state by making the people aware about them,” said Badal, while addressing a religious congregation after paying obeisance at Nanaksar Thaat at Samaadh Bhai in Moga district. He said it was the need of the hour that the ‘Sant Samaj’ and the spiritual leaders should make all out efforts for preaching the tenets of Sikhism, which could play a pivotal role in curbing social evils that had plagued the society.
Badal also impressed upon the people to follow footsteps of our great Gurus who preached us to serve the mankind with utmost dedication and devotion. lauding the enormous contribution of Nanaksar sect in spreading Sikhism, the Chief Minister also recalled the valuable contribution of the sect in the social and religious fields.
Badal said that the Nanaksar sect had played a key role in preaching the tenets of Sikhism on one hand and undertaking several philanthropic works for serving the mankind on the other adding that the sect had always propagated the message of universal love and brotherhood amongst the people.