The members of the newly-constituted Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (HSGPC) on Sunday continued their siege of Kurukshetra’s Gurdwara Chatti Patshahi on the second day of their bid to take over the Sikh shrine.
Even though there were not many people from the HSGPC side till afternoon, tension built up after 3 pm as some protestors tried to breach the police barrier near the Gurdwara. However, police prevented them from proceeding ahead. Heavy police deployment was seen near the Gurdwara on Sunday.
The leaders of the HSGPC and their supporters had on Saturday laid siege just 100 feet from the Gurdwara, one of the state’s biggest, in Kurukshetra, about 110 km from here.The members of the task force and other volunteers of the Amritsar-based Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), which still controls Sikh shrines in Haryana, were inside the shrine premises, ready to resist any attempt for a forcible take over.
Many people from both sides were carrying traditional weapons like swords, spears and sticks.