Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan, while cornering the leadership the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) over the sensitive issue of the disappearance of 328 sacred swaroops, said that on one hand the SGPC claims that the Ishar Singh Committee and the Internal Committee had clearly recommended strict action against the guilty, but the biggest question is why those recommendations have not been implemented till date.
Should it be assumed that the failure to take action itself was a political conspiracy to provide a safe passage to the culprits? Launching a sharp attack, Sandhwan asked whether the accused were so influential or belonged to their own inner circle that instead of punishing them, Panthic maryada was sacrificed.
He said it appears that political interests were placed above the sentiments and maryada of the Sikh community. If everything was clear in the reports, then under what compulsion was the truth deliberately hidden from the Sangat? This silence is directly equivalent to shielding the guilty.
He further said that if the reports of the inquiry committees were correct, then not acting upon them is a grave Panthic crime, for which the current SGPC leadership is directly responsible. And if those reports were incorrect, then why has the Sikh world been kept deprived of the real truth till today?
This double policy of the current SGPC leadership has severely damaged the credibility of the institution, for which answers will have to be given to the Sangat.Sandhwan made it clear that the Sikh sangat has every right to know which forces were responsible for creating obstacles in the path of justice.
He warned that those who remained silent and provided shelter to the guilty in matters of sacrilege and negligence of the sacred swaroops will be written as guilty in the history.