Amritsar: Akali supremo and five times Chief Minister of Punjab Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday warned against ‘dangerous conspiracies’ to install government stooges as “neo-Masands” in sacred Gurdhams.
“Devious conspiracies are at work to weaken the Khalsa Panth and dilute its separate and unique religious identity. Our sacred Gurdhams and their unique religious ideology are being targeted. The quom will have to guard against attempts by powerful agencies to create dissensions, disunity and mutual distrust within the community by using the age-old tactics of Trojan horses”
The senior statesman was addressing a massive Panthic gathering at Manji Sahib Diwan Hall in Sri Harmandar Sahib Complex to protest the painful incidents of sacrilege including the outrage at the sanctum sanctorum of Shri Harmandar Sahib.
Badal also warned against the dangerous conspiracy to put Punjab on flames again through communal polarization. “The hard earned atmosphere of peace and communal harmony is being put to torch by powers that be. They will finally blame the flames on Punjabis themselves in a repeat of 1980s and 90s simply to further vested petty political interests”, he said during the ‘panthic ikath’ which also demanded a probe into the recent sacrilege incidents by a sitting judge of the high court.