Chandigarh, Feb 26 (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday rejected the reconstituted Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab to probe the 328 unaccounted ‘swaroops’ of the Guru Granth Sahib, while claiming a new team had been formed solely because the old SIT refused to follow illegal orders to implicate party chief Sukhbir Badal in the case.Reacting to the development, senior leaders Maheshinder Singh Grewal and Parambans Singh Romana,…
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Amritsar, Jan 15 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday said that he had submitted his clarification to Akal Takht’s acting Jathedar Giani Kuldeep Singh Gargaj over his alleged remarks on the Sikh code of conduct and an objectionable video and would abide by the verdict pronounced by the Sikh clergy.After the nearly hour-long meeting with Giani Gargaj and Takht Damdama Sahib Jathedar Baba Tek Singh Dhanaula here, Mann, in a media interaction, said: “They said they would go throug…
Amritsar, Jan 15 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will appear before the Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of the Sikhs, here on Thursday for allegedly making derogatory remarks on Sikh tenets. He is skipping the Golden Jubilee Convention of Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) in Amritsar to be presided over by President Droupadi Murmu owing to his appearance before the Akal Takht.CM Mann is the third Chief Minister to be summoned by the Akal Takht after Parkash Singh Badal and Surjit…
Ludhiana, Jan 8 (IANS) In a strong political message, Aam Aadmi Party Convenor Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, on Thursday, met the newly elected Zila Parishad and Block Samiti members and asserted that the state has decisively broken away from the era of fear and manipulated elections, while announcing the AAP government will now launch a full-scale war against gangsters on the lines of the ‘Yudh Nashean Virudh’ (War against Drugs) campaign. Citing the AAP’s sweeping vi…
Amritsar, Jan 5 (IANS) Akal Takht Jathedar Kuldip Singh Gargaj on Monday summoned Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Maan on January 15, seeking an explanation over his utterances against Sikh institutions that hurt the religious sentiments of the community. The Jathedar claimed said the Chief Minister’s actions in videos towards Sikh Gurus and former Damdami Taksal head Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale were disrespectful and an act of sacrilege.“You are hereby informed that while speaking on a seriou…