Move to set up separate SGPC will divide Sikhs: Akal Takht

Describing as ‘illegal and patently wrong’ Haryana government’s move to set up separate committee for managing affairs of Sikh shrines in the state, Jathedar of the Akal Takht Gyani Gurbachan Singh on Sunday said the step was ‘ill conceived’ and aimed to divide the Sikhs. Referring to the passage of a bill in Haryana Assembly paving the way for setting up of a separate SGPC in the state, the head of the Sikh’s supreme temporal body said the move will create ‘unrest’ in the community.