CHANDIGARH: A day after Haryana Sikh Gurudwara Prabhandak Committee (HSGPC) failed in its efforts to take over the Gurudwara Sahib Patchhahi Chhevin in Kurukshetra, the SAD on Sunday met the Haryana Governor to annul the Haryana Gurudwara Act. The situation in the state remained volatile with high possibility of a physical showdown between the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandak Committee (SGPC) and the HSGPC.
Supporters of the HSGPC, who sat on an indefinite dharna outside the Gurdwara Sahib, blocked the Kurukshetra-Patiala main highway on Saturday night but called it off on finding that the general public suffered due to the block. Meanwhile, SGPC volunteers are in the gurudwara guarding it. Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh has requested both the HSGPC and SGPC to maintain restraint while the Akal Takht finds an amicable solution to the problem.
A high-level SAD delegation comprising SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar, SAD secretary General Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, general secretary Prem Singh Chandumajra and secretary Daljit Singh Cheema met Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki demanding immediate review of the Haryana Gurdwara act passed by the Haryana Assembly against Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1925.
The delegation apprised the Governor that by promulgating the Act, the Haryana Assembly has encroached upon the SGPC’s domain, which was declared an inter-state body corporate as per the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966.
Cheema said that the delegation also apprised the Governor about the conspiracies that have been hatched by the illegally constituted new committee and said that the Haryana government was trying to forcibly take control of the historical Gurdwaras that were being governed by SGPC.
