HSGPC To Invite CM Hooda For July 6 Kaithal Meeting

By 1 2 1 News Reporter

Chandigarh 15^th June:- The Haryana Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (HSGPC- Jhinda faction) remind the Congress government in Haryana of its unfulfilled promise of a separate SGPC for the Sikhs of Haryana.

Addressing a press conference, Jhinda said the matter had been hanging fire for two terms of the Congress. "The Congress first promised a separate SGPC for Haryana in its election manifesto of 2005 and reiterated its commitment to the Sikhs in 2009. The third election is approaching and our demand continues to be shelved. Jhinda said that despite taking affidavits from Sikhs of Haryana who favoured a separate body on the lines of the Delhi SGPC, the government has not taken the issue forward. He said the Punjab Re-organisation Act 1966 passed by Parliament provided for a separate SGPC to Haryana. He said the successive Haryana governments established a separate agriculture university in Hisar, a university in Kurukshetra, but conveniently ignored the creation of a separate SGPC.

He added that we raised the demand in 2000 after which the Congress promised its creation. At the July 6 conference, we intend to invite Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Finance Minister Harmohinder Singh Chatha, the chairman of the committee, to consider our demand. We also expect Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to help our cause instead of causing hurdles in the realisation of the demand.