Haryana Sikh leaders taken into preventive custody

Several Haryana Sikh leaders are demanding a separate body on the lines of the SGPC for community members in the state.

Several Haryana Sikh leaders,who are demanding a separate body on the lines of the SGPC for community members in the state,were taken into preventive custody as they tried to march towards a gurdwara.

Jagdish Singh Jhinda,chief of the self-styled Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee,and others were taken into custody while heading towards ‘Chhavin Patshahi Gurdwara’.

The police were deployed in strength around the gurdwara where SGPC chief Avtar Singh Makkar had already arrived in the morning.

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The Amritsar-based SGPC and some Haryana Sikh leaders are at loggerheads over the issue of a separate Sikh body for the state.

Later,Makkar accused the Congress government in Haryana of giving undue support to a handful of state Sikh leaders who want a separate body on the lines of the SGPC in the state.

He alleged the agitation by the self-styled HSGPC was part of a Congress conspiracy to divide the Sikh community in Haryana.

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