The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) will not be a part of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) Sikh Sammelan, to be organised here on Wednesday, since it “hasn’t been invited to be a part of the event” which is being held to mark the 350th birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh.
“All I can say on the issue is that since the DSGMC has not been invited to be a part of the event, how can it or its representatives participate in it?” Manjinder Singh Sirsa, the DSGMC’s general secretary and Rajouri Garden MLA told The Hindu .
‘Will never support’
Mr. Sirsa further pointed out that the directions of Shri Akal Takhat Sahib on the issue, which held that it would not allow attendance of the Sikh Sammelan to be organised by the RSS, were clear and would be followed.
The event being organised by the RSS in the Capital could never be supported, Akal Takht head Gurbachan Singh said in a statement issued in Amritsar on Tuesday in which he also cited an edict issued in 2004 by the then Akal Takht head and said the Sikhs would never extend support to an outfit which tries to interfere in the internal affairs of the community.
‘Creating mess’
The RSS is organising the event “with a motive to create mess and nothing else”, he said in the statement which further stated that the Sikh community had a separate identity and it has “never interfered in any religion and would never allow any religion or outfit to meddle in its religious matters”.
The Akal Takht had never announced to extend support to RSS events and would never do so in the future, Mr. Singh said in the statement.
