Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh’s statue needs turban: DSGMC
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, March 25
The Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) today said that the statue of Shaheed Bhagat Singh installed on the premises of Delhi assembly was not similar to the official photograph approved by the Union Government.
DSGMC general secretary Manjinder Singh Sirsa said that Bhagat Singh was a Guru Sikh and his statue required a turban. The statue installed by the Delhi Government has a hat.
Addressing the mediapersons, Manjit Singh GK, DSGMC president has sent a letter to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for making changes in the statue.
Speaking on the issue of statue, Sirsa said it showed the anti-Sikh mentality of the Delhi Government and he challenged that if they failed to make changes in the statue, the DSGMC itself would do it.
Sirsa said that in government records and in Parliament also, Bhagat Singh's photo is with a turban.
He also demanded that the highest award of Bharat Ratna be given to Bhagat Singh who came in contact with Bhai Randhir Singh of Akhand Kirtani Jatha when he was in jail and after that, he decided to become a "puran" Sikh and wear turban, said Sirsa.
He asked the Delhi Government to rectify its mistake.
Speaking on the yellow turban worn by Bhagwant Mann, AAP MP, Sirsa said he does it just to show off.
RTI implemented in DSGMC: Sirsa
The DSGMC today announced that it had implemented the long pending demand of the Right to Information (RTI) Act in the gurdwara committee so that anybody could get information of its functioning now.
Announcing this, DSGMC general secretary Manjinder Singh Sirsa said that it had been a long pending demand of the Sikh community, but the erstwhile committee led by Parmjit Singh Sarna had refused to accept it. With this decision, all transactions of the DSGMC will be transparent now.
Sirsa said that a senior Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) leader Kuldip Singh Bhogal filed a case in the court appealing for implementation of the RTI in the DSGMC. In 2012, the Delhi High Court had delivered a decision in favour of Bhogal, but Sarna challenged the High Court order in the Supreme Court. Since then the issue had been stayed.
During the DSGMC elections, the SAD (Badal) in its manifesto had promised to implement the RTI in the gurdwara committee.
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