Thank you for your response veer ji.
Perhaps the Soho Road wale will sort out the damp problems by getting a brummie expert on damp problems from the Yellow Pages and asking him to do a full damp proof course on the Harmandir Sahib using silicon injections.
To my brothers and sisters on this forum. The damage done by the gold plating bodge up is something that even the GOI failed to do during Bluestar. The Soho Road wale have started the process of destroying the Darbar Sahib though their misguided seva. With damp we will lose the paintings on the walls and eventually the current Darbar Sahib building. As veerji mentions this can be reversed if the Soho Road wale get off their back sides swallow their pride and consult experts. For some reason they are too proud to do this. A shame really as future generations will want to know how the Darbar Sahib building lost its original paintings etc and everyone will point fingers at Bhai Sahib Mohinder Singh and Co.
I attach a few pictures of what the paintings on the upper storey staircase looked like earlier this year.
I would like to post the message veerji posted on tapoban as it highlights the damage done.
"There was an outcry by experts in Punjab. Peopl who are word experts in concservation and achritectural historians. People like Patwant Singh tried extremely hard to get the GNNSJ to see that while the seva was welcome it shoudl be doen properly. Peter Poppham an incredibly well respected journalist from the Independant wrote a 1/2 page articel in 1999 titled "Brummies bodge Sikhs' holy shrine" Peter Popham, 25 September 1999, The Independent. The BBC even carried an investigative piece on the contgroversy titled Gold Service with Dalji Dhaliwal.
Its the GNNSJ that is being pig-headed in not accepting that it is totally unnacceptable to remove the original plates whcih were crafted by Ranjit Singh's expert craftsmen and replace them with shoddy copies and it is not acceptable to plaster over centuries old wall paintings and it is not acceptable to leave the Darbar sahib with a really serious case of rising damp and it is not acceptable to put a 21st century rubber membrane on the roof of the builfding (not letting itr breathe and become increasingly damp) like it was some kind of dodgy indian extension in handsworth.
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Sikh Sangat, is a website which is meant to bring awareness to thre youth of this age.
But instead it seems that we want to come on this website and do nindiya and chuugliya of a jathabandi which is lead by a mahapurakh.
Is this the sort of stuuf that as a panth we want our youth to hear.
Even if you think a jatha of mahapurakh is fake, you should still treat them with utmost respect, they have done more naam abhiyas than we can imagine.
so who ever it was who said "their Bhai Saib" should learn some respect and maybe think about themself before doing nindiya of a mahapurak and their jatha