SGPC to file review petition in HSGMC case – Advocate Dhami

Amritsar, September 20 (Punjab Post Bureau) – The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee has decided to file a review petition following the Supreme Court judgment today in the case regarding challenge to validity of Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (HSGMC) Act 2014. The opinion of senior lawyers will be taken in this regard and the legal action is required accordingly.

This decision was taken in the SGPC executive committee (EC) meeting presided over by SGPC President Advocate Harjinder Singh Dhami, at Sri Guru Ramdas Medical College in Amritsar on Tuesday.

Talking to the media after the meeting, SGPC President Advocate Harjinder Singh Dhami said that a consensus has been reached to file a review petition in the case of validity to HSGMC Act, 2014, by the Supreme Court, for which, the officials of SGPC have been deputed at Delhi. He said that the next legal action will be taken as per the opinion of the senior lawyers after examining the Supreme Court’s order.

SGPC President said that it is not right to comment on the Supreme Court’s judgment, but the move played by the then Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda to form a separate Gurdwara management committee for Haryana is dividing the Sikh power.

“Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda is a part of Congress class that massacred Sikhs, but it is sad that the incumbent BJP Government also followed the same footsteps and became partners in breaking the foremost representative institution of Sikhs. The politics of breaking up SGPC and dividing Sikh power is not right and the governments should not interfere in Sikh issues”, said SGPC President Harjinder Singh Dhami.

Present in the meeting included SGPC senior vice-president Raghujit Singh Virk, general secretary Karnail Singh Panjoli, EC members Sarvan Singh Kular, Surjit Singh Garhi, Jarnail Singh Dogranwala, Balwinder Singh Vain Puin, Harjap Singh Sultanwind, Amarjit Singh Bandala, Bibi Gurpreet Kaur, Jodh Singh Samra, Baba Gurpreet Singh, SGPC additional secretary Paramjit Singh Saroa, Pratap Singh, Sukhminder Singh, OSD Satbir Singh Dhami, assistant secretary Kulwinder Singh Ramdas, Gurinder Singh, Nirvail Singh, Satnam Singh Mangasarai, Gurcharan Singh Kuhala, in-charge Shahbaz Singh, Gurnam Singh, Balwinder Singh Khairabad, Azaddeep Singh, Tarsem Singh, Rajwant Singh, XeN Paramjit Singh, and Manager Sukhraj Singh.