AAP following footsteps of Congress by interfering in Sikh religious affairs: SAD
Shiromani Akali Dal on Saturday said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was following in the footsteps of the Congress party by directly interfering in the religious affairs of the Sikh community by trying to prevent the SAD from contesting the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) elections.
It also announced it would initiate criminal action against the polling agency which had entered into a conspiracy with AAP to come out with a bogus survey for the 2022 Assembly elections.
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Former minister Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said the Aam Aadmi Party Delhi government had become desperate and joined hands with anti-panthic groups to prevent the SAD from contesting the forthcoming DSGMC elections.
He said the level of frustration was such that Delhi’s Gurdwara Election minister Rajinder Pal Gautam had written to the Principal Secretary, Gurdwara Election department to demand strict compliance of certain amended rules which had been brought into being by the erstwhile Congress government.
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“These rules seek to prevent allocation of the ‘balti’ symbol reserved for the SAD despite the fact that this issue was settled by the Election Commission of India in 2008," he added.
Asserting that this was done because AAP was afraid that the Shiromani Akali Dal would sweep the DSGMC elections, Cheema said the ‘sangat’ was with the party because of the ‘langar sewa’ it had done during the period of Covid, creation of a hospital for free dialysis treatment and legal help offered to Sikh youth who had been targeted for repression by both the BJP led central government and the AAP government.
“I want to tell Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal that others also tried to interfere in the religious affairs of the Sikhs but did not succeed. Nor will you,” he said.
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