Lashing out at the Captain Amarinder Singh-led Punjab Government’s stand in the court seeking separate gurudwara body for Haryana, the Shiromani Akali Dal core committee on Monday decided to approach the Governor VP Singh Badnore to urge him to order withdrawal of Government’s affidavit regarding the same.
The core committee, passing a resolution, described Captain Amarinder Singh-led Congress Government’s revised affidavit endorsing the setting up of a separate Sikh religious body in Haryana as “the continuation of old and deep-rooted conspiracies by the enemies of the Khalsa Panth to strike at the sources of the spiritual strength of the Sikh quom by weakening, dissolving or grabbing the control of the supreme Sikh religious parliament, the SGPC”.
Through a separate resolution, the party decided to submit a memorandum to the Punjab Governor drawing his attention to the fact that the State Government’s fresh affidavit is not only a U-turn on the affidavit submitted by the State Government earlier but was also fraught with serious consequences as it amounted to a brazen interference in the religious affairs the Khalsa Panth.
SAD pointed out that the Capt Amarinder’s affidavit is “legally and constitutionally weird in that it runs directly opposite to the State Government’s earlier affidavit on this issue which had opposed the breaking up of the SGPC with a separate religious body in Haryana”.
The core committee also decided to ask the state Governor to intervene in the highly sensitive case pertaining to the death of a key witness in the Behbal Kalan case under mysterious circumstances, said the party spokesperson Harcharan Singh Bains after the meeting.
Bainsa said that the party would draw the attention of the Governor to the grave allegations leveled by the wife of the deceased witness of the Behbal Kalan case. She has leveled most damning allegations against the two Congress leaders, Kushaldeep Singh Dhillon and Gurpreet Singh Kangar, noted the core committee.