Badal has asked the Centre to take suitable steps to prevent the atmosphere from vitiating further as the Haryana SGPC leaders, he said, are allegedly issuing statements of dire consequences if Amritsar-based SGPC fails to vacate the shrines in Haryana.
The Amritsar-based SGPC here still holds control of the Gurudwaras in Haryana.
On Thursday, the executive committee of the HSGPC held its meeting held at Kaithal, Haryana, where the committee's senior leader Jagdish Singh Jhinda warned that the Sikh community of Haryana will not tolerate "forcible occupation of the gurudwaras and would not mind taking any step to get the shrines evacuated."
Badal said that SGPC was constituted after the enormous sacrifices made by Sikhs during the British rule, but the "Congress was bent upon weakening this august religious body".
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