Akal Takht releases Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal’s 3-page letter ‘searching for forgiveness for errors’ | Amritsar Information

AMRITSAR: Twelve days after Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal submitted his clarification concerning the “4 errors” that the insurgent SAD leaders sought forgiveness for on the Akal Takht final month, his three-page clarification was launched to the media by the Akal Takht secretariat on Monday.
In his letter, the SAD chief has sought “unconditional forgiveness” for “all errors” dedicated when the celebration was in energy in Punjab.

Insurgent SAD leaders together with former MP Prem Singh Chandumajra and ex-Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) chief Bibi Jagir Kaur who appeared earlier than the jathedar on July 1 had held Badal, who was deputy chief minister at the moment, liable for the “errors” throughout SAD rule in 2007-17.
Nonetheless, the timing of releasing Sukhbir’s clarification has led to many questions. Sukhbir submitted the clarification to the Sikh excessive monks on July 24 — simply sooner or later after dissolving the SAD core committee and the clarification was made public by the Akal Takht secretariat on August 5, a day after Sukhbir reconstituted the core panel.
Sukhbir refers to Badal Sr letter of 2015 ‘expressing deep regret’
Media adviser at Akal Takht Secretariat Talwinder Singh Bhuttar mentioned the Jathedar of Akal Takht Giani Raghbir Singh, Jathedar of Takht Damdama Sahib Giani Harpreet Singh and Jathedar of Takht Kesgarh Sahib Giani Sultan Singh held a casual assembly at Akal Takht secretariat on Monday earlier than deciding to make Sukhbir’s clarification public.
He defined, “An excessive amount of misinformation was being unfold… In consequence, the Sikh excessive monks determined to make it public.”
He mentioned the Sikh excessive monks had been but to carry a gathering to take a choice on the criticism submitted by insurgent SAD leaders and on the clarifications of Sukhbir and SGPC.
Within the clarification, Sukhbir, making an attempt to painting himself as a humble Sikh, acknowledged all of the errors with none reservations, nor did he query the allegations or the intent of SAD leaders who accused him of grave misdeeds.
“Whether or not these errors had been made by the celebration or by the government, I search forgiveness for all such errors, whether or not they had been intentional or unintentional,” writes Sukhbir including that “As the top of the household, Itake accountability for all mis takes and maintain them in my very own purview”. Sukhbir wrote, “A number of distressing incidents occurred in Punjab throughout the SAD authorities from 2007 to October 2015. Relating to these painful occasions, then CM Parkash Singh Badal approached Jathedar on Oct 17, 2015, presenting a letter “expressing his deep regret and ache”.
He al so hooked up a duplicate of Parkash Singh Badal’s letter to then Jathedar of Akal Takht on Oct 17, 2015, alongside together with his clarification. Sikh mental Ravinder Singh mentioned, “It’s not by likelihood that Sukhbir submitted his clarification a day after he dissolved celebration’s core committee and launched it a day after he reconstituted the panel.”