Former MP and SAD (Amritsar) president Simranjit Singh Mann and other Sikh hardliners here today said the motive behind holding Sarbat Khalsa (religious congregation) on November 10, was to get the Shriomani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee freed from the grip of its present chief Avtar Singh Makkar as well as SAD (Badal).
Stating this here, Mann said during the mass gathering on November 10, message would be conveyed to Jathedar Akal Takht and other Jathedars to step down as they were "rejected" by the Sikh Panth.
Mann said Sikh masses wanted those ruling SGPC to go due to their alleged close proximity with controversial Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh.
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He said during the Sarbat Khalsa, an effective strategy would be made to throw Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal out of power and free the SGPC led by SAD (Badal) as they were allegedly responsbile for lowering the dignity of the holy Akal Takht, the highest Sikh temporal seat.
He also made it clear that there was no bandh call on November 10.
Sikh hardliners would hold the congregation in Amritsar, for which land has been taken on rent at he Amritsar-Tarn Taran road at Gurdwara Baba Naudh Singh after they were refused permission in the Golden Temple by SGPC.
The factions which have come out against the grant of pardon to Dera Sacha Sauda Sect chief Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh are Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar), headed by Simranjit Singh Mann, SAD (united) led by Mokham Singh, SAD (Pardhani), SAD (Delhi), Dal Khalsa, Damdami Taksal (Ajnala), Akhand Kirtani Jatha, Sant Samaj, Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Committee and the All India Sikh Students Federation.
Sarbat Khalsa had been called to register protest against the edict issued to grant pardon to Gurmit, a decision which was later revoked when Sikh community mounted pressure on Jathedar Akal Takht.
Earlier, Mann along with other likeminded Sikh hardliner outfits had declared that during Sarbat Khalsa, the jathedars of three Takhts - Gurbachan Singh (Akal Takht), Mal Singh (Kesgarh Sahib) and Gurmukh Singh (Damdama Sahib) would be removed.
