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SGPC to demand religious punishment for Amarinder Singh

The newly-elected Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee executive group on Wednesday decided to ask Akal Takht Jathedar Joginder Singh Vedanti for religious punishment for Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh for receiving religious punishment for sending police into the Golden Temple complex.

"Alongwith with the executive members, I will personally meet the Jathedar of Akal Takht for early action in this regard," re-elected SGPC president Kirpal Singh Badungar said in Amritsar on Tuesday.

The police had been despatched as a security measure to the Golden Temple complex on November 10, but Amarinder Singh had maintained that the police "did not enter the Darbar Sahab" and only went to the guesthouse in the complex.

The chief minister had denied reports in a section of the media that police had entered Darbar Sahab [the sanctum sanctorum].

A general house meeting of the SGPC with new executive in place on Tuesday night passed a resolution demanding summoning of Amarinder Singh for the police action, Badungar said.

He said that Amarinder should be summoned for receiving religious punishment for allegedly denigrating the "maryada" [sanctity] of the shrine.

The resolution would be submitted within a week's time after completion of some formalities, he added.

Asked whether the Tohra faction members had supported the move, Badungar said that they "did not raise any objection".

Earlier in 1984 after Operation Blue Star, the then Union home minister Buta Singh was summoned and later excommunicated from the Panth.

Former chief minister Surjit Singh Barnala was awarded religious punishment in 1986 after police entry into the shrine.

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