Can Sukhbir Badal bury the controversies by submitting to Akal Takht?
Nevertheless, the SAD leaders are additionally hopeful that the Sikh group will pardon the celebration and its leaders and they are going to be allowed to maneuver on. Even Maharaja Ranjit Singh, they level out, had appeared earlier than the Akal Takht to tender apology, which was accepted.
The Sikhs have a practice of forgiving individuals who make errors, they level out.
The punishment indicators that the non secular arm of the Panth, the Akal Takht, has re-established its authority over the political wing (the SAD) after a very long time. The SAD leaders had been at pains, nevertheless, to dispel the view that the punishment would immediate it to once more turn out to be a Panthic celebration and jettison its agenda on ‘Punjab–Punjabi–Punjabiyat’.
Nevertheless, by submitting humbly earlier than the Akal Takht and the punishment pronounced, SAD leaders hope to bury the controversies and revive the fortune of the celebration. The punishment, they hope, will assist assuage the collective conscience of the Sikh group and soothe the damage their reckless actions could have induced.
It must also, they hope, finish the regular stream of dissidents deserting the celebration. The dissidents had cited these accusations in opposition to Badal, his ministers and different SAD leaders as their main purpose for leaving the celebration.
BJP leaders similar to Sunil Jakhar have welcomed the event and expressed their hope that the BJP–SAD alliance could also be revived within the state.
Nevertheless, a former SAD MP within the Rajya Sabha, Naresh Gujral, has identified that the fissures with the BJP had been attributable to the controversial farm legal guidelines and the interference of the BJP authorities on the Centre in Panthic issues, together with the administration of gurdwaras. He additionally mentioned that the federal government had not responded to calls for to launch Sikh political prisoners and sidelined Sikh leaders of their appointments.
