SGPC forms panel on ‘deletion’ of Sikh history from books

› The matter is serious. The subcommittee that will meet in Patiala, will submit a report in two days.

DILJIT SINGH BEDI, SGPC spokesperson

AMRITSAR: The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has set up a sub-committee to conduct a probe into the deletion of chapters of Sikh history from Class-12 text book that the Punjab School Education Board prescribes.

“The matter is serious. The sub-committee will submit a report in two days,” said SGPC spokesperson Diljit Singh Bedi. Those on the panel are SGPC member from Chandigarh Harjinder Kaur; member from Anandpur Sahib, Surinder Singh; SGPC secretary (education) Avtar Singh, Guru Nanak College for Girls, Muktsar, principal Tejinder Kaur Dhaliwal and assistant secretary (Dharam Parchar) Simarjit Singh. SGPC education director Jatinder Singh Sidhu will be the coordinator.

“The committee will meet on Wednesday at Panth Rattan Jathedar Gurcharan Singh Tohra Institute, Patiala,” Bedi said,

CM’S ACT SHAMEFUL, CLAIMS HARSIMRAT

LUDHIANA: Union cabinet minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal has called the decision of the Punjab government to remove chapters of Sikh history from Class-12 text book as shameful.

In the city as the chief guest at the convocation of Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, she told HT, “Can you imagine a chief minister of Punjab removing Sikh history? Who is going to promote Sikhism then? This is shameful. Either the CM is misled or he is lying, totally to save himself.”

“No issues were raised on the book from 2013-16. Why is there the hue and cry now? That’s because they (the Congress government) has removed chapters on Sikh history altogether. Sikh history is taught from Class-5. After cutting out portions of this, they are saying it that this was decided during the tenure of the Akalis. It is absurd,” she claimed.