SGPC not to interfere in taksal affairs

Son of Guru Gobind Singh Ji · June 22, 2003

The India Tribune

Saturday, 21st June 2003

Amritsar -- Mr Kirpal Singh Badungar, SGPC chief, today said the shiromani committee would not interfere in the internal matters of Damdami Taksal. In a press note issued here today, Mr Badungar said the SGPC would give recognition to any person who was unanimously installed as Jathedar of the takht. Mr Badungar said the employees of the SGPC who were working on honorarium would not be removed even after attaining the age of 60 years. Instead, the SGPC would move an application in the Sikh Gurdwara Judicial Commission to exempt them from service rules as they were indispensable. The SGPC secretary has been directed to prepare a report of such persons at the earliest.

The SGPC had passed a resolution that the raagis and granthis should be exempted from the age limit of 60 years. Mr Badungar had categorically told the press that Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti, Jathedar, Akal Takht, and Giani Bhagwan Singh would lose their jobs as Granthi of the Golden Temple and Head Granthi, Akal Takht, respectively. But he (Mr Badungar) is under pressure to retain their services on the basis of the resolution passed by the SGPC. Jathedar Vedanti and Giani Bhagwan Singh were among those Sikh high priests who had exonerated Mr [Parkash Badal], president, Shiromani Akali Dal, from charges of violating any maryada (Sikh tradition).

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