Chandigarh: The AAP-led Punjab authorities’s transfer to amend the Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1925 to make sure free telecast rights of Gurbani from the Golden Temple has triggered a large row. The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, the apex spiritual physique for Sikhs, reacted sharply to the transfer, asking the federal government to not intervene in spiritual issues.
In an official assertion issued right here, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann stated the agenda for the decision shall be cleared at a Cabinet assembly slated for Monday. He stated the decision shall be tabled within the Assembly in the course of the particular session on June 20.
“In a historic decision aimed at ensuring the free-to-air telecast of sacred Gurbani from Sri Harmandar Sahib, Amritsar, the Punjab government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will amend the Sikh Gurdwara Act 1925,” the assertion stated. Mann claimed that the choice is in consonance with the emotions of the ‘Sikh Sangat throughout the globe.
The Chief Minister described it as the necessity of the hour to disseminate the ‘Sarb Sanji Gurbani’ throughout the globe with the goal of spreading the common message of ‘welfare of all’.
Mann stated Gurbani must be telecast freed from value slightly than confining it to a single channel.
He stated the transfer will go a great distance in providing a possibility to the ‘Sangat’ to take heed to Gurbani whereas sitting at house, even in overseas nations.
The chief minister stated it would additionally permit individuals to get a glimpse of the Sri Harmandar Sahib on their TVs and different digital devices.
Reacting to the choice, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee chief H S Dhami stated the Punjab authorities shouldn’t intervene within the spiritual issues of Sikhs and that it has no proper to amend the Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1925.
It just isn’t the primary time Mann has referred to the problem of the telecast of Gurbani. Last 12 months too, he had urged the SGPC to permit the telecast of the Golden Temple Gurbani on different channels.
Currently, the sacred hymn is being telecast by a personal TV channel.
