SAD has declared that it would launch a “massive struggle” to force the Congress-led Punjab Government to “apologise to the Khalsa Panth for “deliberate and persistent insults” cast against the great Guru Sahibaan in the history books meant for Class XII students in Punjab School Education Board.
Announcing this, SAD president Sukhbir Badal said that the party leaders would perform an ardas at Takhat on November 1 before launching the struggle to bring the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh and the Congress Government down on its knees for its brazen assault on the sacred image of the great Sikh Guru Sahiban, especially Guru Arjan Dev, Guru Hargoibind, Gure Teg Bahadur and the tenth Guru Guru Gobind Singh.
Sukhbir demanded that the Chief Minister and his Congress Government must immediately apologise to the Khalsa Panth and to humanity at large for their sin against the great Guru Sahibaan.
He also demanded registration of criminal cases against those associated with the preparation of such outrageous sacrilegious material and that they be dismissed from their respective positions and punished.
“New books, containing these humiliating portions, must be banned and withdrawn immediately and be replaced with the old books which had been in use for decades,” he said.
Sukhbir said that if the Congress Government did not accept the demand to undo the damage immediately, “it should prepare to face the wrath of the Khalsa Panth. SAD struggle will continue till the Congress is brought to its knees before the might of the Panth”.