Corridor: Badal credits Sangat's prayers for achievement: Asks pol. parties to transcend the race for credit
Corridor: Badal credits Sangat's prayers for achievement: Asks pol. parties to transcend the race for credit
Former Chief Minister Sardar Parkash Singh Badal today paid obeisance at Gurdwara Ber Sahib at Sultanpur Lodhi on the 550th Parkash Utsav of Shri Guru Nanak Dev ji.
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Later, answering questions from newsmen, Mr Badal said that the credit for the opening of the Corridor to Kartarpur Sahib must go mainly to every member of the Nanak Nam Leva Sangat who had been praying daily for the past over 70 years for Khulle Darshan Deedar and Seva Sambhal (free access and service) of all the Gurdhams from which the Sikh Sangat had been weaned away."Our elders always told us about the power of Sangat's Ardas(prayers). Yesterday, we saw that power." Mr Badal thanked Akal Purakh and Guru Sahiban for answering the Ardas of every Sikh.
"Everyone among us is free to take credit but the true credit goes to Akal Purakh and the great Guru Sahiban who answered the prayers of Sikh Sangat in this regard. But since the final official and formal decision in this regard has to be taken by the government of the day, I must express my gratitude for the official decision to the NDA government and especially to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi who took the initiative to announce the construction of a state-of-the-art corridor on the Indian side of the access. However, even the PM would be the first to give credt for this to the great Gurus," said Mr Badal.
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Mr Badal asked all political parties to "rise above the temptation of engaging in a race for credit on this shared aspiration of every Sikh because this is a great achievement for all and it has happened because of the blessings of the Gurus. Let us all celebrate this achievement together without getting into a race for credit, even though I know that this has been one of the longest standing demands of the SAD and the SGPC and they have waged struggle for it. But this occasion transcends politics. It is a victory of the Khalsa Panth and it is something beyond party lines," said Mr Badal when a reporter asked him who should be given credit for the achievement.
-PTC NEWS
