Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann connected Sunday accused the Badal household of “misusing” its governmental powerfulness to interfere successful spiritual affairs of the Sikhs.
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He alleged that it influenced the assignment of the Akal Takht Jathedar implicit the years to suit its idiosyncratic interests.
The Chief Minister levelled the allegations portion addressing the beneficiaries who gathered astatine Guru Nanak Dev University present to person certificates of indebtedness waiver.
He besides claimed that the Akalis, driven by “financial motives”, person “degraded” the sanctity of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) and misused Sikh institutions for constrictive governmental gains.
The CM said the Badal household reduced the SGPC to a specified “Shiromani Golak Prabandhak Committee” for its “greed for money”.
He besides accused accepted governmental parties of remaining insensitive towards the payment of economically weaker sections, adding that “selfish leaders” ever treated those from the Schedule Castes (SC) simply arsenic their ballot bank.
For the archetypal time, helium claimed, the authorities authorities had extended a indebtedness waiver to farmers belonging to the SC community. He said a alleviation of Rs 67.84 crore had been fixed to 4,727 loanees of Punjab Scheduled Castes Land Development and Finance Corporation.
Bid to distract attraction from failures: Cheema
Responding to the allegations, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) spokesperson Daljit Singh Cheema said it was Mann who was “unnecessarily interfering successful spiritual affairs of the Sikhs by uttering disparaging words against the SGPC”.
He said the “politically motivated remarks” were made to distract the attraction of radical from burning issues of deteriorating instrumentality and order, rising unemployment and cause addiction successful state.
Cheema besides alleged that ruling AAP leaders successful Punjab were behaving arsenic dictated by their leaders successful Delhi. “Otherwise, determination was nary request to interfere successful spiritual affairs of a community,” helium said.
Remarks amusement intelligence bankruptcy: SGPC chief
Hours aft the Chief Minister referred to the SGPC arsenic the “Shiromani Golak Prabandhak Committee”, the apex Sikh gurdwara assemblage slammed Mann for his remarks.
In a statement, SGPC president Harjinder Singh Dhami termed the remarks “baseless” and a “blatant insult to the Sikh Panth’s highest spiritual institution”.
He added that the remark not lone reflected Bhagwant Mann's “intellectual bankruptcy but besides exposes his arrogance and shallow understanding”.
The SGPC president asserted that the SGPC was not simply a absorption assemblage but besides a exemplary instauration successful the fields of societal payment and education.
“Despite constricted resources, the SGPC established astir 100 acquisition institutions successful Punjab,” helium said.
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