SGPC announces to send delegation to Shillong for helping Sikhs living in Punjabi lane area
Posted: 12 Jun 2019 08:31 AM PDTCHANDIGARH, Punjab—The apex Sikh body Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhik Committee has announced to send a four member delegation to Shillong for helping the Sikhs living in the Punjab lane area. It is learnt that the SGPC members Harpal Singh Jalla, Advocate Bhagwant Singh Sialka, SGPC’s additional secretary Paramjit Singh Saroa and one another Simarjit Singh will be a part of this delegation.
In a press note shared with Sikh24, the SGPC president Gobind Singh Longowal has said that the Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the Union Home Secretary should intervene in the matter to save Sikhs from harassment. He has said that the Punjabis have been living in Shillong from the last 200 years, but now they are being targeted intentionally by the locals there.
It is pertinent to note here that the Shillong Municipal Board has recently served notices to the residents of the Punjabi lane area asking them to produce documents proving their legal right over the respective properties, they own in concerned area.
Beside it, the banned militant organization of Meghalaya named Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (abbreviated HNLC) has also threatened the Sikhs living in Punjabi lane area of Shillong.