"The community respects all the religions but forgetting one's own glorious past and following the tenets of other religion is not acceptable," AISSF president Karnail Singh Peer Mohammad said in a statement here.
His statement comes in the wake of SGPC accepting an invitation extended by Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh(RSS) president Mohan Bhagwat to attend the two-months long Maha Kumbh Mela beginning from tomorrow.
He said the Mela had no significance in Sikhism and participation in the religious gathering would send out a wrong signal, especially about the independent identity of the Sikhs.
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