Sgpc Attacks Sikh Channels Crew In Punjab

[m4ndy]

anyone heard about this?

[Pehlvan]

This is coming on Sikh Channel now (tues, 7pm GMT).

This is what Dr Sadhu Singh has said about it. It happened in Amritsar, near Baba Deep Singh Ji Shaheed Gurdwara. SGPC people were loading gutkas and pothi sahib into a dirty three wheeler with no respect. A Nihang Singh objected to this and they beat him up. He then phoned the Satkar Committee Singhs who were in Harimandar Sahib. They arrived on the scene and dozens of SGPC Task Force started beating them with sticks and kirpans. The Sikh Channel arrived and the Task Force starting beating them as-well. They snatched the Sikh Channel camera and their ID Card - they have still got these. The Sikh Channel camera-man got beaten up quite badly, they took his dastar off and broke his kanga. He is now in hiding. Satkar committee Singhs are under arrest in police stations.

[Sherdil]

What is this new fad of taking someone's dastaar off? How disgraceful that this happens in Punjab, the birthplace of Sikhism. It's even worse when Sikhs do this to each other. Unbelievable.

[singh135]

What is this new fad of taking someone's dastaar off? How disgraceful that this happens in Punjab, the birthplace of Sikhism. It's even worse when Sikhs do this to each other. Unbelievable.

several point here of which the dastar being taken off is only one;

1) Apparent beadbi with this '3-wheeler'. Need photographs/evidence

2) Assault and battery on innocent bystander Nihang

3) Further assault on Satkar committee

4) false allegation charges resulting in arrests

5) Seeming in impunity by SGPC

These are based on the description above. We need to have a clear idea of what has happened, ideally with eye witness accounts/film footage/photographs. I wonder if Sikh Channel will talk more about it on TV.

[singher23]

History is repeating itself. SGPC have become the masands. Now they must go

[S1ngh]

Scuffle between Sikh hardliners and SGPC employees

PTI | 09:01 PM,Jan 31,2012

Amritsar, Jan 31 (PTI) A group of nearly 25 people belonging to a hardline Sikh NGO was involved in a minor scuffle with SGPC employees at a gurudwara here over the transportation of religious scripture. The group, belonging to NGO 'Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Committee', had raised objections to the transportation of the religious books in a "dirty" commercial vehicle. When contacted, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee secretary Dalmegh Singh alleged that a group of nearly 25 people led by one Balbir Singh Muchal and Gurnam Singh attacked the SGPC employees working in the printing press. The matter was brought under control when police reached the spot, he said.

[KhalistaniGunMan]

History is repeating itself. SGPC have become the masands. Now they must go

ive said this before...SGPC should be destroyed..they are a obstacle for the panth

[S1ngh]

Veerji, SGPC should not be destroyed but need to amend some rules and re-launch it. They require sweeping changes just like many oragnizations based in uk, canada & amreeka. SGPC is important part of sikh society but fair to say that majority of employees are not sikhi by heart. Our grandfathers fought and many gursikh gave shaheedian to form SGPC back in 19th century.

Such beadbi is bound to happen when an institution hire people based on sifarish and bribe rather than hiring people who are of sewa/gursikhi nature. These employees care less about sikhi but more about money [just like everyone in this world]. It is not all their fault but of the insitution who failed to give them proper job training and never provided prachar when they were kids playing in the field of rural punjab.

If i was bit sane mind in SGPC, i would without any haste give gurbani printing sewa to 'Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Committee' members as they are doing perfect job without involving any financial gain. Or keep them as external auditor to keep tab on sucha important task of SGPC : "Printing of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji"

[VanHelsingh]

"Hardliners".

As soon as someone is loyal to their faith and wants things to be done with due respect, they suddenly become hardliners. Incendiary words designed to plant doubts in the minds of unaware people who will now side with the SGPC because they will think the SGPC workers were attacked by these "hardliners".

Was anybody attacked? I don't agree with that --- if it happened.

[Paneer Monster]

"Hardliners".

As soon as someone is loyal to their faith and wants things to be done with due respect, they suddenly become hardliners. Incendiary words designed to plant doubts in the minds of unaware people who will now side with the SGPC because they will think the SGPC workers were attacked by these "hardliners".

Was anybody attacked? I don't agree with that --- if it happened.

true. this is not the first time.

whenever stand up against beadbi, or even when we hold a perfectly legitimate protest, or even celebrate gurpurab on correct day, the media immediatly dubbs us as hardliners, radicals and extremists.... pathetic bias indian media.