DSGMC control with Akali Dal once again

Syed Ali Ahmed

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, March 1

Maintaining its hold, the Shiromani Akali Dal today won the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) elections by bagging 35 of the 46 seats.  

The Shiromani Akali Dal (Delhi), led by the Sarna brothers, got only seven seats, while two were bagged by the Akal Sahai Welfare Society. Independent candidates Tarvinder Singh Marwah and Gurmeet Singh Shanty emerged victorious from Jangpura and Tri Nagar, respectively.

In the 2013 poll, the Badal Akali Dal had won 37 seats, and SAD (Delhi) eight. 

The Akal Sahai Welfare Society, a new entrant in the fray, won Tagore Garden and Khayala seats. Tarvinder Singh Marwah, who defeated senior SAD member Kuldeep Singh Bhogal, is a sitting member from Jangpura.

SAD’s Manjit Singh GK won by a margin of 1,230 votes, Manjnder Singh Sirsa by 497, Avtar Singh Hit by 701, Onkar Singh Thapar by 307, Manmohan Singh by merely 15 and Paramjit Singh Chandhok by 660 votes.

Manjinder Singh Sirsa defeated SAD (Delhi) chief Paramjit Singh Sarna in Punjabi Bagh. SAD’s Vikram Singh Rohini won the Rohini seat with the maximum margin of 1,900 votes.

Delhi’s Sikhs have approved the policies and works of SAD, which has been looking after gurdwara affairs for the past four years, Manjit Singh GK, who was DSGMC chief, said.