AMRITSAR: Advocate Harjinder Singh Dhami, president of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, rejected the 38-member ad hoc Haryana Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee nominated by the Haryana government, saying that government tactics will never be accepted in the affairs of Sikhs.
Advocate Dhami strongly condemned this move by the Haryana government and said that the characteristic of the Sikh community is that they have always been autonomous to manage their Gurdwaras and their institutions. The Sikhs never accepted the government thinking and history is a witness that whenever such conspiracies were committed by the governments of the time, the Sikhs united and countered it and promoted the sectarian ideology.
Advocate Dhami said that it is sad that governments are plotting to divide the Sikhs and some Sikhs are not understanding their tactics and are acting as government pawns. He said that the government committee nominated for the management of Gurdwara Sahibs of Haryana cannot prove to be beneficial for the interests of the nation even today and in the future. Advocate Dhami appealed to the Sikhs and leaders of Haryana to understand this conspiracy of the government. He said that the Sikhs of Haryana should understand that on the one hand the patronage and leadership of Shri Akal Takht Sahib and the mother organization of Sikhs is the matter of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, for which Sikhs made sacrifices and on the other hand the government's arbitrariness in destroying Sikh institutions. There is a bad intention to manage with. He appealed to the Sikhs of Haryana to come to Sri Akal Takht Sahib to solve this issue by understanding the difference between these two things, because it can never happen that the government patronage that they like today will be able to meet them in the future. . He said that similar government intervention was done by the British government during the establishment of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, but the Sikhs never accepted it.
Advocate Dhami said that if today we abandon our sect traditions and accept government intervention by forgetting the sect history, then the future of the nation will never be as per the hopes of the Sikhs. The Shiromani Committee President once again rejected the separate Haryana Committee from scratch and said that the Haryana Committee is a move to weaken the Dhakwanj Panth, which can never be accepted.
Advocate Dhami told the government in clear words that if the government continues with such tactics, then the Sikh community will actively move forward to compete with it. He said that the governments should stop entering into this matter by approving the Sikh Gurdwara Act 1925 which came into existence with great sacrifices. Advocate Dhami said that strong opposition to government moves in the name of Haryana Committee will continue.