Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday warned that vicious efforts of Congress-led Haryana Government to wrest control of gurdwaras in Haryana would not be tolerated at any cost.
Sukhbir also asked the Centre to take suitable steps to prevent the atmosphere from vitiating further as the Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Parbandhak (HSGMC) leaders were allegedly issuing threatening statements of dire consequences if Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandak Committee (SGPC) failed to vacate the shrines in Haryana.
He alleged that this Congress-sponsored provocation was self-indicative of the fact that these dejected Haryana-based Sikh leaders believed in confrontation and wants to disrupt the peace and tranquillity in the Sikh shrines of Haryana.While talking to the media at the information office of Golden Temple, Sukhbir said that SGPC was constituted after the enormous sacrifices made by Sikh Panth during the British Raj but the infamous activities of Haryana Government were aimed at weakening this August religious body.
“Ever since Independence, the Congress has confronted Punjab politically, socially, economically and even religiously. By constituting a separate committee for management of gurdwaras in the State, the Congress has inflicted a third major assault on the Sikhs after Operation Blue Star and 1984 anti-Sikh riots which could not be tolerated at any cost,” he added.