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AMRITSAR: The officiating Jathedar of Akal Takht, Giani Kuldip Singh Gargajj, has summoned Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann to look astatine its secretariat connected Jan 15 implicit alleged "anti-Sikh remarks", "objectionable conduct", and a precocious surfaced video that the Takht says profoundly wounded Sikh sentiments.Mann posted connected X that helium would look earlier Sri Akal Takht Sahib arsenic a "humble and devout Sikh alternatively of a main minister". "Any bid from Sri Akal Takht Sahib Ji is accepted with afloat reverence and volition beryllium obeyed. I volition locomotion barefoot earlier Sri Akal Takht Sahib," helium said.Mann said though the President is visiting Guru Nanak Dev University successful Amritsar connected Jan 15, helium would inactive obey the Takht summons. "For me, Sri Akal Takht Sahib Ji is supra everything.
The bid received from the ineffable Takht is, was, and volition ever beryllium ultimate to maine and my family," helium said. Jathedar Gargajj said the CM, contempt holding a precocious law office, repeatedly made statements that challenged "Sikh Rehat Maryada (code of spiritual conduct)", supremacy of Akal Takht, and sanctity of Guru Ki Golak.
"These comments bespeak an arrogance of powerfulness and an anti-Sikh mindset," Gargajj alleged.
Clarifying wherefore the CM was not summoned to look astatine the facade (Fasil) of Akal Takht, the jathedar said that Bhagwant Mann is simply a "patit (apostate)" and, according to Sikh tradition, cannot beryllium summoned to look astatine Fasil. "Therefore, helium was summoned to personally look astatine the secretariat of Akal Takht astatine 10am connected Jan 15 to taxable his explanation," Gargajj said.Jathedar Gargajj said a arguable video that had precocious surfaced would beryllium subjected to forensic introspection and, if recovered authentic, strict Panthic enactment would follow.Mann got enactment from alternatively unexpected quarters. BJP criticised the Akal Takht summons, with enactment Punjab spokesperson Sarchand Singh calling it a "well-orchestrated exercise" to shield elder Shiromani Akali Dal leaders and those who are facing apprehension implicit the 328 missing ineffable saroops of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. Invoking "religious defiance" was a maneuver to exert unit connected the CM and obstruct the SIT investigation, helium said.
He said determination is nary Panthic contented of summoning a 'patit' Sikh adjacent astatine the Akal Takht secretariat.
