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Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann deed retired astatine Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) connected Sunday (January 18, 2026), cautioning the party’s instrumentality to powerfulness would plunge the State backmost into a acheronian era.
The Punjab authorities was compelled to represent a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the missing 328 ‘saroops’ (sacred copies) of Guru Granth Sahib, the CM said, blaming the misdeeds of Akalis and the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) — the assemblage liable for the absorption of humanities Gurdwaras. “Our lone nonsubjective is to hint the missing saroops. We person nary volition of interfering successful spiritual institutions,” helium said, addressing a nationalist gathering astatine Majitha successful Amritsar.
The Chief Minister reiterated the supremacy of Akal Takht — the highest Sikh temporal spot — and said, “Sri Akal Takht Sahib is supra each of us. That is wherefore I did not be the relation of the President of India and chose alternatively to look earlier the Takht.”
He said that dissimilar his government, the Akalis person repeatedly undermined the authorization of Sri Akal Takht Sahib. “Jathedars person been appointed and removed astatine their whims, dealing a terrible stroke to the sanctity of these institutions,” helium said, adding that Congress enactment leaders person mislaid their governmental equilibrium aft facing continuous defeats.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) person Talbir Singh Gill volition beryllium the AAP’s campaigner from Majitha successful the 2027 Assembly elections, Mr. Mann declared.
AAP represents a caller authorities wherever radical are not petitioners earlier powerfulness but partners successful governance, the Chief Minister asserted. He said that Majitha volition present nonstop a typical who believes successful decision-making, improvement and accountability, not intimidation and entitlement.
