‘Don’t amend gurdwara act’

Oct 21, 2012 - Tanveer Thakur |

Age Correspondent

Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Saturday asked the Congress party to refrain from “playing with fire” by amending the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1971, which could disturb the hard-earned peace of the state.

Talking to mediapersons, the chief minister said the move of amending the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1971 was a testimony to the fact that the Congress was meddling in the religious affairs of the Sikhs, thereby inciting their religious passions, which would never be tolerated.
He said that in the past too due to such “misdeeds” of the Congress, the state had felt the brunt of terrorism due to which the peace, brotherhood, harmony and progress of the state were adversely affected. Mr Badal said that the Congress leaders had hardly learnt any lessons from the past due to which they were hurting the sentiments of the Sikhs by fanning such proposals.
Mr Badal said that he would meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde and seek their immediate intervention in the matter so it could be tackled before it snowballs into a major political issue.
He said that it was the duty of all the Punjabis to preserve the hard earned peace and communal harmony of the state by curbing the nefarious designs of anti-Punjab forces which were bent upon to derail its process of development.

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