In a letter sent to
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday 30th July, the acting president of
the Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (HSGMC) Didar Singh Nalvi has
asked for compliance of Supreme Court orders of 2014 in which it had asked the
Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) for opening separate bank
accounts of gurdwaras that the committee manages in Haryana.
These gurdwaras include: Nada Sahib in Panchkula;
Panjokhra Sahib and Manji Sahib in Ambala; Dhamtan Sahib and Gurdwara Guru Teg
Bahadur Sahib in Jind; a Gurdwara Sahib in Thanesar and another in Yamunanagar.
Nalvi claimed that the apex court order six years ago, SGPC had transferred at
least Rs 70 crore from gurdwaras in Haryana to Punjab, exhibiting
non-compliance of the order.
Referring to the annual budget for this fiscal, Nalvi
said that for seven gurdwaras in Haryana, it is Rs 12 crore.
“Why is the donation
reaching in cash and kind in gurdwaras of Haryana not being spend on the causes
of the community within the state. If this is being spent elsewhere, the SGPC
should justify it,” adding that Haryana government must make compliance of SC
orders binding on the SGPC.
After the Haryana government passed an act for a
separate Gurdwara body for the state, the SGPC had moved the SC, which ordered
status quo on a separate Gurdwara body, however, asking for accounting of
donations received in Haryana Gurdwaras, separately.
