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Vedanti snubs SAD, SGPC, says he doesn't want any honor
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Chandigarh: Delivering a snub to the Akali Dal and the SGPC, former Akal Takht jathedar Joginder Singh Vedanti has said the SGPC kept on ignoring his advice to devise a system of appointments and removals of jathedars in the past eight years. He also said he does not want any honour from the SGPC anymore.

“I wrote several times, but the committee kept on ignoring my letters for reasons best known to them. It would be in the interest of the Sikh panth if such a system is devised, which should take into account factors like capabilities, contributions and experience of the person,” the former head of the highest temporal seat of the Sikhs said. On Friday, Vedanti took part in a kirtan samagam in the city, organized by the All India Sikh Students’ Federation.

He said his meeting with the Delhi Gurdwara Management Committee (DGMC) president, Paramjit Singh Sarna, was held “purely to discuss religious issues”. Vedanti said he suggested Sarna to arrange to have an “authentic, good quality translation of Guru Granth Sahib”, since there have been many distortions prevalent. “He, in turn, asked me to take up the project and assured to support it,” the jathedar stated.

Sounding a note of caution on the Dera Sacha Sauda issue after his successor talked of “possibility of a solution after October”, Vedanti said any decision should be made only after taking into account the sentiments of Sikhs.

Claiming that he never asked the Sikhs to support prime minister Manmohan Singh on any political issue, he, however, admitted that he had praised the man. “I told the media that the PM had given a good name to the community by his actions, intelligence and conduct and I still stand by this.”

Vedanti reiterated that he did not want any honour after he had been privileged enough to serve the highest temporal seat of the Sikhs for eight years.

20 August, 2008
 

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