Shiromani Akali Dal president (SAD) Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday said the party would start a “struggle”' against the ruling Congress government for allegedly distorting history related to the Sikh faith and Sikh gurus by misrepresenting facts through the newly released chapters of the Class XII history book of the Punjab School Education Board.
“We would start the struggle to force the Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh and the Congress government in the State to apologise to the 'Khalsa Panth' for repeatedly and deliberately insulting the Sikh Guru Sahiban,” he said.
Mr. Badal said a 48-hour long protest “”=dharna” would commence in Amritsar on November 1. “I will sit for the first 24 hours and then the SGPC chief Jathedar Gobind Singh Longowal would sit for the next 24 hours,” said Mr.Badal.
He said the next phase of the “'struggle”' would be announced at the conclusion of the “dharna” in case the Congress government did not apologise.
Mr. Badal asked for exemplary punishment to all those responsible for casting insults against the great Gurus through blasphemous versions of history. “Mere withdrawal of the repeatedly sacrilegious text-books was not enough to atone for the grave sin of casting insults against the great Gurus,” he added.
