At centre of row between Akali Dal, Akal Takht, who is Jathedar Harpreet Singh

However, Akal Takht Jathedar Raghbir Singh instantly intervened and issued a directive to the SGPC not to judge Harpreet Singh’s resignation, threatening that different helium volition discontinue too. The Akal Takht successful Amritsar is the highest temporal assemblage of Sikhs.

SGPC president Harjinder Singh Dhami did not judge Harpreet Singh’s resignation, asserting that the SGPC stood by him.

On Friday, Harpreet Singh held a gathering with Akal Takht Jathedar Raghbir Singh, pursuing which helium said: “After a directive by Akal Takht Jathedar and SGPC, I person decided to retreat my resignation. I volition proceed to service the panth successful immoderate mode I can.”

On Tuesday, Valtoha had appeared earlier the Akal Takht, which held him “guilty of quality assassination of the Sikh clergy” and ordered the Akali Dal to expel him from the enactment for 10 years. Subsequently, Valtoha resigned from the SAD.

Valtoha was summoned by the Akal Takht aft his purported remarks that Jathedars were allegedly nether unit of the BJP and RSS arsenic good arsenic the Sikh diaspora successful delaying solution of the substance of SAD president Sukhbir Badal. He questioned the “delay” successful announcing the “tankhah” (religious punishment) for Sukhbir, who was declared “tankhaiya” (guilty of spiritual misconduct) by the Akal Takht connected August 30 for the “mistakes” committed by the erstwhile SAD-led authorities from 2007 to 2017. He was said to person “failed” to nutrient immoderate grounds to substantiate his charges.

Harpreet Singh belongs to a Dalit Sikh household from Gidderbaha successful Muktsar district. His begetter was a colony granthi. He graduated from Guru Kashi Gurmat Institute and joined the SGPC arsenic a preacher successful 1997. He was appointed arsenic the caput granthi of the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib successful Muktsar successful 1999. He completed his Master’s grade successful spiritual studies from Panjab University. Currently, helium is doing his Ph.D successful comparative survey of the teachings of the Quran and the Guru Granth Sahib.

In April 2017, the SGPC appointed Harpreet Singh arsenic the Jathedar of the Damdama Sahib Takht

at Talwandi Sabo successful Bathinda district, replacing Giani Gurmukh Singh, who had issued statements against the SGPC alleging that the Akali Dal apical brass had dictated presumption to the Sikh clergy for giving “pardon” to Dera Sacha Sauda main Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh successful October 2015 that was aboriginal revoked.

In October 2018, Harpreet Singh was named the Acting Jathedar of the Akal Takht arsenic well, a presumption from which helium resigned successful June past twelvemonth pursuing a contention implicit his attendance successful the engagement ceremonial of AAP person Raghav Chadha and Bollywood histrion Parineeti Chopra.

Raghbir Singh past took implicit arsenic the Akal Takht Jathedar.

In April past year, extremist Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh, who is present an MP from Khadoor Sahib, had asked Harpreet Singh to telephone a Sarbat Khalsa astatine Talwandi Sabo connected the Baisakhi day. He alternatively organised a seminar of the Sikh scholars astatine the Damdama Sahib Takht connected April 7. Amritpal was subsequently arrested nether the National Security Act and has since been successful the Dibrugarh jailhouse successful Assam.

The existent enactment has again pushed the crisis-ridden Akali Dal to the backmost ft arsenic Harpreet Singh alleged that the party’s societal media helping was helping Valtoha. It is different substance that the Damdama Sahib Takht Jathedar had earlier said that the SAD, a panthic party, indispensable beryllium “strong” successful Punjab.

A ample conception of the Sikh assemblage and adjacent leaders cutting crossed enactment lines — including Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party person Bhagwant Mann and Congress person Sukhjinder Randhawa — person extended their enactment to Harpreet Singh and slammed the erstwhile SAD leader.

The Akali Dal enactment has present besides distanced itself from Valtoha. SAD moving president Balwinder Singh Bhunder told The Indian Express: ”We apologise for each remark made by Valtoha. We volition not tolerate thing against the Jathedars. Valtoha had visited the Akal Takht connected Tuesday successful his idiosyncratic capableness and spoke independently. But since helium was SAD leader, helium should person consulted the enactment earlier speaking anything. If anyone commits specified a mistake again, we volition expel that idiosyncratic from the enactment — and I volition myself measurement down arsenic I can’t tolerate thing against our Jathedars.”