Capt takes on Makkar over Haryana SGPC
Wednesday, 25/06/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140625/punjab.htm#8
Amritsar : Amritsar MP Capt Amarinder Singh today took a dig at SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar over the formation of a separate SGPC for Haryana. Ridiculing the claim of Makkar that he (Capt) was seeking a separate Haryana body to weaken and undermine the authority of the SGPC, Amarinder said: “Everybody knows the SGPC was once a powerful body. But now it has been reduced to a naught by the SAD.” He said he understood his (Makkar’s) compulsion to oppose the Haryana body.
“We are supporting an independent body for managing gurdwaras in Haryana so that the Badals have no say in it,” he said.
Amarinder suggested to the SGPC chief that he must understand the popular sentiment and not follow the diktats of the Badals. “It is time for you to set a healthy precedent and assert independence and authority of a great and powerful institution like the SGPC,” he told Makkar.
