With the Sikhs’ highest temporal seat — Akal Takht — refraining the newly-elected Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (HSGMC) from functioning, its president Jagdish Singh Jhinda on Sunday said that the committee’s executive body will decide about future course of action at a meeting to be held at Kaithal in Haryana on July 29.
“We do not want to comment on the edict given by the Akal Takht. Our (HSGMC) executive body meeting will be held day after tomorrow at Kaithal to decide about the future course of action,” Jhinda said.
In a fresh diktat, the Akal Takht has restrained the newly elected office bearers of HSGMC from functioning. Defending the formation of HSGMC, Jhinda said that it was similar to the Delhi SGMC which independently manages affairs of Sikhs in the national capital. “HSGMC has been formed much like Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee came into being,” he said.
Jhinda also said that the office bearers of HSGMC will go to Golden Temple in Amritsar on Monday to pay obeisance. Jhinda and Didar Singh Nalvi, who spearheaded the movement for the formation of separate SGPC for Haryana, were a day before elected President and Senior Vice President respectively of the newly notified HSGPC.
Besides Jhinda and Nalvi, Harpal Singh Palli, Jagir Singh Yamunanagar, Bhupinder Singh Assandh and Harpal Singh Palli were also elected as vice president, general secretary and joint secretary, respectively. Six members of the executive committee were also elected. Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh, on Saturday, had said that Sikh leaders from Haryana and Akali leaders from Punjab would be asked to come at Akal Takht to find out solution.