Bir Devinder questions Jathedar Akal Takht's verdict on Sucha Singh Langah - Punjabi News

Published on: 30 Nov 2022 at 04:18 PM

Bir Devinder questions Jathedar Akal Takht’s verdict on Sucha Singh Langah

Published by: The fact news

Chandigarh, November 30

Bir Devinder Singh, former Deputy Speaker, of Punjab Vidhan Sabha said that Giani Harpreet Singh has committed ‘contemptuous irreverence’ towards the centuries-old Sikh doctrine of ‘Miri’ and ‘Piri’ being practiced by the Sikh Community for more than 400 years, hence it requires censorious scrutinization from the viewpoint of Sikh Philosophy.

“Giani Harpreet Singh Head priest of Sri Akal Takht, while pronouncing the religious punishment (Tankah) to former SAD minister Sucha Singh Langah from the parapet of Sri Akal Takht, strategically paving the way for him to resume political activities, with a caveat to debar him from taking part in religious activities for five years. Unfortunately, this paradoxical pronouncement made by Giani Harpreet Singh has committed ‘contemptuous irreverence’ towards the centuries-old Sikh doctrine of ‘Miri’ and ‘Piri’, being practiced by the Sikh Community for more than 400 years, hence it requires censorious scrutinization from the viewpoint of Sikh Philosophy,” said Bir Devinder Singh.

“As per the established Sikh ethos, the head priest of Sri Akal Takhat has committed colossal aberration against the Sikh tenets by practically rescinding the centuries-old Sikh doctrine of Miri and Piri. “Miri” represents temporal power and “Piri” represents spiritual power, and both domains are perceived to be uniquely inseparable from each other. Then how could the Head Priest of Sri Akal Takhat, attempt to deviate from the basic Sikh Principals, which are being devotedly followed by the Sikh community for more than 400 years? The doctrine of Miri and Piri was originally conscripted and conferred by the Sixth Sikh Guru, the founder of Sri Akal Takht Sri Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji. As such the pronouncement of Giani Harpreet Singh is bound to have grave implications in the paradigm of universal Sikh behavior. It is strange that while allowing Sucha Singh Langah to resume political activities, by implication he permitted him to do all kinds of nasty things in the political sphere by keeping just away from religious activities for five years. I’m afraid this kind of selective freedom will allow Langah to commit much more offensive wrongs in politics in the absence of any religious deterrence,” said former Deputy Speaker, of Punjab Vidhan Sabha.

“The head Priest of the Akal Takhat including other Sikh priests, who congregated at Sri Akal Takhat to form a ‘religious jury’; are expected to explain to Sikh Sangat as to where was the pressing need to make special concessions and readmit, a thoroughly pervert person, to the fold of the Sikh Religion in defiance of Sikh value system, who already stands excommunicated from the community being a sitting member of the SGPC based on nastiest moral turpitude? The Sikh Panth would like to know from the acting Head priest of Sri Akal Takhat as to what happened to be the compelling circumstances that made him surrender to the whims and fancies of. Sucha Singh Langah, where he had to revoke the irrevocable decree of Sri Akal Takht, excommunicating him for his abominably sinful conduct. He is also expected to tell the truth from the rampart of Sri Akal Takhat and share with the Sikh Community if his pronouncement was influenced and indoctrinated by the vested political interests of the Badal family. All the Sikh priests present on the parapet of Sri Akal Takht on November 26, 2022, at the time of the pronouncement of punishment to Sucha Singh Langah owe an immediate explanation to the Sikh Community as a whole, as to why and how they have separated two combined realms; Temporal Power and the Spiritual Power in utter disregard of Sikh doctrine to facilitate Langah to resume his political activities, who is otherwise barred from religious activities for five years?

The SGPC and the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) also need to explain if they subscribe to the new doctrine, envisaged by the Sikh priests at Akal Takhat, separating religion from politics. They must come clean on the vital issue of having grave political consequences for the Sikh polity; if the SAD (Badal) and SGPC have finally abandoned the doctrine of Miri and Piri as envisaged by Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji and thus making the Institution of Sri Akal Takht, irrelevant, for all time to come? I am of the humble view that the sinister pronouncement made on Sri Akal Takht on 26th of November 2022, entails immediate retraction, and all the Sikh Priests involved in the slapdash decision, must tender an apology to the Sikh Panth and also resign forthwith for their contemptuous irreverence and aberration towards the most revered and established Sikh doctrine of ‘Miri’ and ‘Piri’ being practiced by the Sikh Community for more than 400 years,” he expressed.