Ranjit Singh Brahmpura, president Shiromani Akali dal
(Taksali) Khadoor Sahib MP today visited the historical Gurdwara Darbar Sahib
Taran Taran to express his anguish and pain after the alleged attempt of some
Karsewa and office bearers of the Gurdwara management committee to demolish the
historical Darshani deodi of the Gurdwara on the night of March 30.Brahmpura
termed the incident as very unfortunate, shocking, painful and a sin committed
by the responsible members of Gurdwara management in the garb of night and
approval of SGPC.“These kind of sacrileges are taking place since the Badal
family has taken full control of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak
Committee(SGPC). Badals have politicized the SGPC for the personal and
political gains,” alleged Brahmpura while talking to the media persons here.He
lamented that SGPC has started playing at the hands of Badal family.”SGPC was
formed by the Sikhs by making a lot of sacrifices, but now its people have
become Masands and doing the anti religious works,”he said.Coming down heavily
on Badal family, Brahmpura alleged that Badals use SGPC to make some deals and
he also suspects some kind of deal behind this incident as well because the
demolition work of the Deodi was started at night to avoid public wrath.“The
Deodi was constructed by Naunihal Singh, son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and has
great value for the Sikh heritage, but some anti panthak (Patnth De Dokhi)
elements and foolish people and executive members of the SGPC have started
demolishing it instead of its renovation and re-construction with the help of
latest techniques,” Brahmpura said talking to the media here.
“Now Badal family has lost its ground and they want to come
to power by doing these kinds of anti panthak and perverted works. But now we
reiterate that we will not allow this demotion work to move ahead in any
case,”Brahmpura said.SAD (Taksali) senior vice president and former MP said
that his party would explore all legal options before it to get a criminal case
registered against the persons involved in the work of demolition of the
Deodi.”We shall explore options to get a case registered in this regarding, but as the courts of law take
longer time to decide such cases, I demand that persons behind the demolition
of historical deodi be summoned to Akal Takhat Sahib and excommunicated from
the Panth." he said.Brahmpura also released the photos of the alleged work
of demolition and a copy of the SGPC resolution approving the demolition of the
historical deodi,which exposes that SGPC cannot deny that it had not approved
the demolition work.Brahmpura later on also paid obeisance at Gurdwara Sahib
along with his party workers. At this moment former MLA Ravinder Singh
Brahmpura, Satinderpal Singh Malmohri, Satnam Singh Chohla, Kashmir Singh Sangha, OSD Damanjeet Singh and
others were present. It is pertinent to mention that the some members of
historical Gurdwara Darbar Sahib at Taran Taran started the demolition of Deodi
late evening of March 30 and due to the opposition of the Sikh community,
demolition work had to be stopped immediately afterwards.