NO MOVE FOR REPLICA OF GOLDEN TEMPLE IN SANGRUR’
Amritsar June 12:
The management committee of Gurdwara Sachkhand Angitha Sahib (MCGSA) vehemently denied in a letter to the Akal Takht (highest Sikh temporal seat) that any attempt is being made to build a replica of the Golden Temple (Harmandar Sahib) in Mastuana in Sangrur district.
Head of the MCGSA Sadhu Singh said it was cheap and petty thoughts of some politicians including Shriomani Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) Amritsar that there was an attempt to build a replica of Golden Temple. Commenting on the ongoing construction work at Sangrur, Sadhu Singh claimed that it was just aimed at a facelift and kind of renovation of the dilapidate structure of Gurdwara Sachkhand Angitha Sahib.
The facelift was initiated on the persistent demand of devotes and local residents besides committee members of the Gurdwara, said he. Sadhu Singh has filed a written reply to Akal Takht on receipt of serious note took by the latter whereupon strong objection was raised, wherin Akal Takht Jatehdar Gyani Gurbachan Singh had ordered the SGPC to call a meeting of all Sikh religious bodies on June 20 on the issue of alleged copying of the architectural design of the Golden Temple in Amritsar at Gurdwara Sachkhand Angitha Sahib in Sangrur.
However, Gyani Gurbachan Singh had also asked MCGSA to stop the ongoing construction work which was being done to create a replica of the Golden Temple. Meanwhile, Sadhu Singh alleged that SGPC Amritsar and some Akali leaders of the ruling party due to their vested interests, were misguiding Sikh devotes by terming the ongoing construction of Gurdwara as an attempt to create a replica of the Golden Temple.
Sadhu Singh said Gurdwara Angitha Sahib has high esteem in the minds and hearts of thousands of devotes across the world and the management would not bear any harm to the present structure of the Gurdwara by any authority. It may be mentioned here that three days back SGPC executive member Rajinder Singh Mehta, SGPCA General Secretary Sukhdev Singh Bhaur and other SGPC officials visited and inspected the ongoing construction work of Gurdwara Angitha Sahib and submitted report before the Akal Takht whereupon it was alleged that a deliberate attempt was being made to reconstruct the Gurdwara on the pattern of the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
Amritsar June 12:
The management committee of Gurdwara Sachkhand Angitha Sahib (MCGSA) vehemently denied in a letter to the Akal Takht (highest Sikh temporal seat) that any attempt is being made to build a replica of the Golden Temple (Harmandar Sahib) in Mastuana in Sangrur district.
Head of the MCGSA Sadhu Singh said it was cheap and petty thoughts of some politicians including Shriomani Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) Amritsar that there was an attempt to build a replica of Golden Temple. Commenting on the ongoing construction work at Sangrur, Sadhu Singh claimed that it was just aimed at a facelift and kind of renovation of the dilapidate structure of Gurdwara Sachkhand Angitha Sahib.
The facelift was initiated on the persistent demand of devotes and local residents besides committee members of the Gurdwara, said he. Sadhu Singh has filed a written reply to Akal Takht on receipt of serious note took by the latter whereupon strong objection was raised, wherin Akal Takht Jatehdar Gyani Gurbachan Singh had ordered the SGPC to call a meeting of all Sikh religious bodies on June 20 on the issue of alleged copying of the architectural design of the Golden Temple in Amritsar at Gurdwara Sachkhand Angitha Sahib in Sangrur.
However, Gyani Gurbachan Singh had also asked MCGSA to stop the ongoing construction work which was being done to create a replica of the Golden Temple. Meanwhile, Sadhu Singh alleged that SGPC Amritsar and some Akali leaders of the ruling party due to their vested interests, were misguiding Sikh devotes by terming the ongoing construction of Gurdwara as an attempt to create a replica of the Golden Temple.
Sadhu Singh said Gurdwara Angitha Sahib has high esteem in the minds and hearts of thousands of devotes across the world and the management would not bear any harm to the present structure of the Gurdwara by any authority. It may be mentioned here that three days back SGPC executive member Rajinder Singh Mehta, SGPCA General Secretary Sukhdev Singh Bhaur and other SGPC officials visited and inspected the ongoing construction work of Gurdwara Angitha Sahib and submitted report before the Akal Takht whereupon it was alleged that a deliberate attempt was being made to reconstruct the Gurdwara on the pattern of the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
