Chief minister Sheila Dikshit has promised action against people
involved in a clash last week outside the Rakabganj gurdwara and
rubbished suggestions that her government had a hand in the violence.
"It was a clash between two factions of Sikhs, which is being given political colour by some for their vested interests," she said about the clash
on Thursday at the central Delhi gurdwara which left several people
injured.
Her comments on Saturday comes after her Punjab counterpart Parkash
Singh Badal wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, alleging that a move
by her government to amend the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee
election procedure was "unjustified" and "provocative" and had led to
the violence.
Dikshit was in Ludhiana, Punjab, to attend an event organised by the
Nehru Sidhant Kendra Trust to celebrate the birth anniversary of the
former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
The chief minister said it was not the first time that an amendment
had been proposed in the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee Act,
adding that the matter would be taken up in the Assembly session. "The
Badal government should not interfere in any elections taking place in
Delhi," she added.
She referred to Nehru as a great visionary and a committed soldier who participated in the freedom struggle.
She described Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi as a leader of
the future, saying it was premature to comment whether he would be the
prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 elections.
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