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Bhai Ranjit says, “History has given us a one more chance to unite. The SGPC elections will be our test. We will back only those candidates who do not shift to the Badal clan once they win.”
He says the SAD (Badal) is weakening which, he says, is evident from the Vidhan Sabha elections where the SAD-BJP alliance was restricted to 46 seats. “This shows that people know that Parkash Singh Badal is double-faced,” he adds.
R P Singh, spokesperson of the Akhand Keertani Jatha, adds, “We are in talks with all the Panthic leaders and asking them whether they stand by the commitment that they made at the bhog of Darshan Singh (the man who dies in police firing in Ludhiana). We have talked to Bhai Jasbir Singh Rode and Simranjeet Singh Mann, who have promised us support.”
On the issue of Khalistan, R P Singh says, “Whether we can have a separate state or ask for more powers for Punjab is what needs to be figured out.”
Meanwhile, Panthic leaders met the five persons injured in the clash who are undergoing treatment at the local CMCH. They gave Rs 1 lakh to the patient who is still critical and Rs 50,000 each to others.
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Whether Shiromani Akali Dal has ever decided to launch Gurdwaras Reform Movement again?Clash makes Panthic bodies close ranks- Were the Sikhs not in field, to divide Sikhs with the support of the central agencies? Whether Shiromani Akali Dal organized on December 14, 1920 at Sri Akal Takhat Sahib has ever decided to launch Gurdwaras Reform Movement again, to play the important role in the social, political and religious life of the Sikhs as well as of the Punjabis or has it been abandoned? Did Shiromani Akali Dal celebrated the day and other similar days in the Sikh History being reminded, now and then, and taken the oath on December 14, 2009 at Sri Akal Takhat Sahib to do so?