Ahead of the Panthic collecting referred to as on the Akal Takht on Monday at the Punjab Police`s crackdown, radical Sikh corporations have taken a robust exception to the trendy commentary made with the aid of using performing jathedar of the best Sikh temporal seat, Giani Harpreet Singh, and raised questions over the approaching occasion. On Saturday, the performing jathedar had requested absconding `Waris Punjab De` leader Amritpal Singh to give up and cooperate with the police of their probe.
He had additionally asserted that the Monday`s occasion might now no longer be a meeting, however a assembly to which handiest decided on folks were invited, none of whom is a political figure. He stated that handiest invitees might be allowed to wait the `assembly` referred to as to chalk out the approach to address the crackdown beneathneath which the police have detained rankings of youths for his or her alleged hyperlinks with the unconventional Sikh preacher.
Harpreet Singh`s commentary had come an afternoon after Punjab Police intelligence leader Jaskaran Singh met him at his house on Friday. Former SGPC member and `Akal Purakh Ki Fauj` leader Jaswinder Singh on Sunday stated, “Limiting the open invitation to the March 27 collecting to 3 corporations increases many questions. Will the final results be as in keeping with the Sikh sentiments in this kind of situation?”
Meanwhile, the coordination Sikh panel led with the aid of using former militant chief Daljit Singh Bittu stated, “On one hand, the jathedar is convening a assembly towards the excesses of the country forces, even as on the alternative he’s looking for a protection cowl from those forces.”
Meanwhile, the Dal Khalsa wrote a letter to the jathedar with its president Harpal Singh Cheema saying, “Our criticism is which you have proven laxity in satisfying duty two times withinside the count of the current incidents. As the time passes, such selections emerge as a trifling formality and undergo no impact.”
He stated, “Asking Amritpal to give up does now no longer behove you. This isn’t always the priority of Akal Takht jathedar as in keeping with the Sikh factor of view. You aren’t the custodian of the regulation and order, however of Sikh concepts and maryada. You did now no longer take a clean stand at the Ajnala incident at some point of which objections had been raised over sporting the Guru Granth Sahib to the police station and you then definately handed its duty onto the Sikh bodies.”
He added, “Instead of taking a well timed motion towards the detentions and arrests of Sikh youths with the aid of using the Bhagwant Mann-led AAP authorities, you referred to as a meeting after 10 days. Had you given an ultimatum to the authorities, no want might have arisen to name the collecting.”
Criticising the choice of now no longer inviting any political chief, Cheema stated, “This is towards the idea of Miri and Piri, in keeping with which faith and politics pass simultaneously. Yet, we endorse you supply a 24-hour ultimatum to the authorities at some point of the assembly to launch the detained youths and raise the NSA sections imposed at the activists.”