In his first visit to the holy city of Amritsar after being appointed president of Haryana SGPC, Jagdish Singh Jhinda along with 34 members of the newly-formed ad hoc committee on Monday paid obeisance at the Golden Temple.
Talking to mediapersons after the visit, he said, “Peace, religious harmony and sanctity of Sikh religion has to be followed strictly and nobody would be allowed to disturb the sanctity of any gurdwara in Haryana”.
Meanwhile, Jhinda was not allowed to go inside the Akal Takht, the supreme temporal body of the Sikhs, which has ex-communicated him and two others from the community, including Haryana Finance Minister HS Chattha, recently. Jhinda paid obeisance from a distance to Akal Takht.
Asked when the new committee would take charge and possession of gurdwaras in Haryana in the wake of forming of HSGPC in the State, Jhinda said his executive was not in haste as legal procedure and other mandatory religious formalities are to be followed. At present, the gurdwaras in the State are still under the control of Amritsar-based SGPC and several armed Nihangs are keeping a vigil in the Haryana gurdwaras.
Jhinda said he would soon write to SGPC, SAD chief patron and Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Jathedar Akal Takht to hand over the charge of all Haryana-based gurdwaras to newly-formed Haryana body besides withdrawing the task force of SGPC from the shrines.
According to customs, ex-communicated Sikhs are not allowed to visit Akal Takht till the time they are pardoned by the Takht. Jhinda was ex-communicated for not adhering to summons from the Akal Takht after the controversy on separate gurdwaras for Haryana Sikhs cropped up. Jagmohan Singh n Amritsar
In his first visit to the holy city of Amritsar after being appointed president of Haryana SGPC, Jagdish Singh Jhinda along with 34 members of the newly-formed ad hoc committee on Monday paid obeisance at the Golden Temple.
Talking to mediapersons after the visit, he said, “Peace, religious harmony and sanctity of Sikh religion has to be followed strictly and nobody would be allowed to disturb the sanctity of any gurdwara in Haryana”.
Meanwhile, Jhinda was not allowed to go inside the Akal Takht, the supreme temporal body of the Sikhs, which has ex-communicated him and two others from the community, including Haryana Finance Minister HS Chattha, recently. Jhinda paid obeisance from a distance to Akal Takht.
Asked when the new committee would take charge and possession of gurdwaras in Haryana in the wake of forming of HSGPC in the State, Jhinda said his executive was not in haste as legal procedure and other mandatory religious formalities are to be followed. At present, the gurdwaras in the State are still under the control of Amritsar-based SGPC and several armed Nihangs are keeping a vigil in the Haryana gurdwaras.
Jhinda said he would soon write to SGPC, SAD chief patron and Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Jathedar Akal Takht to hand over the charge of all Haryana-based gurdwaras to newly-formed Haryana body besides withdrawing the task force of SGPC from the shrines.
According to customs, ex-communicated Sikhs are not allowed to visit Akal Takht till the time they are pardoned by the Takht. Jhinda was ex-communicated for not adhering to summons from the Akal Takht after the controversy on separate gurdwaras for Haryana Sikhs cropped up. Jagmohan Singh n Amritsar
In his first visit to the holy city of Amritsar after being appointed president of Haryana SGPC, Jagdish Singh Jhinda along with 34 members of the newly-formed ad hoc committee on Monday paid obeisance at the Golden Temple.
Talking to mediapersons after the visit, he said, “Peace, religious harmony and sanctity of Sikh religion has to be followed strictly and nobody would be allowed to disturb the sanctity of any gurdwara in Haryana”.
Meanwhile, Jhinda was not allowed to go inside the Akal Takht, the supreme temporal body of the Sikhs, which has ex-communicated him and two others from the community, including Haryana Finance Minister HS Chattha, recently. Jhinda paid obeisance from a distance to Akal Takht.
Asked when the new committee would take charge and possession of gurdwaras in Haryana in the wake of forming of HSGPC in the State, Jhinda said his executive was not in haste as legal procedure and other mandatory religious formalities are to be followed. At present, the gurdwaras in the State are still under the control of Amritsar-based SGPC and several armed Nihangs are keeping a vigil in the Haryana gurdwaras.
Jhinda said he would soon write to SGPC, SAD chief patron and Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Jathedar Akal Takht to hand over the charge of all Haryana-based gurdwaras to newly-formed Haryana body besides withdrawing the task force of SGPC from the shrines.
According to customs, ex-communicated Sikhs are not allowed to visit Akal Takht till the time they are pardoned by the Takht. Jhinda was ex-communicated for not adhering to summons from the Akal Takht after the controversy on separate gurdwaras for Haryana Sikhs cropped up.