Malton Nagar Kirtan

[00gurpreet_singh00]

nah, the more sangat the better

in downtown nagar keertan i dont think they even take guru granth sahib ji to a hall anymore, so whats the reason for 2?

[Shaheed]

isnt it maryada for nagar kirtan to go from gurdwara to gurdwara or nishan sahib to nishan sahib???

[Shinda]

The tensions between the Mayor of Mississauga and Malton started happening last year when City of Mississauga made malton change its route from the one it was acustomed to for the Sept. Nagar Kirtan.

Speakers on stage belittled the Mayor for not allowing the "cooperative Sikh community", and the mayor lashed back saying it was a fire risk to close down Morningstar streets.

The same thing occured this time. The city would not approve the desired route of going up morning star saying it was a fire risk, and the alternate route (going up derry) was going to cost around $40, 000 not making it feasable.

So the desi way was chosen instead where you insist that Sangat use the sidewalks upto Humberwood and then progress from there but then again when you got 20 - 30, 000 desi's your not going to get them to walk single file, so police where forced to close the roads regardless.

As per the 2 Nagar Kirtans the split began in 2000. At the time the only gurdwara they rejected it was Scarbrough as they felt it was not neutral and fair to them. Malton and Dixie both played the maryada card, saying that all Nagar Kirtans traditionally involved going from Gurdwara to Gurdwara, and that it was beadbi to hold Maharaaj saroop at the CNE where raves and such parties take place.

Also hukamnaamay where used and last year (or maybe it was the year before), Singh Sahib Vedanti (like him or not) approved, and endorsed the Malton-Dixie Nagar Kirtan, (no hukamnamaa was released however to this effect).

The CNE thing was later changed, but with the larger of the turnouts being at Malton and Dixie the 2 Nagar Kirtans remained. Last year the Nagar Kirtans where held on different occassions, which is always positive as it gives sangat two times or a chance to go to one if they can't attend on the set date.

This year with the new commitee Dixie changed and decided to go with the Downtown Nagar Kirtan. The problem with the dates comes about largley because there are very few weeks after Vasakhi in which a Nagar Kirtan can be held without it being "too late", and often times the date selected by the commitee's is the only one that they can get close to Vasakhi, so setting them on seperate dates requires a lot of pre-planning and pre-organization, which often times does not happen by one group or the other, and not like one can blame them after all they are still desi.