Damdami Taksal ‘threatens’ to eliminate Dhadrianwale

Chandigarh : Two years after a bloody war between Damdami Taksal and Sikh preacher Ranjit Singh Dhadrianwale, that claimed the life of the latter’s aide, the Amritsar-based Sikh seminary has again issued “death threats” to the preacher.
The new war of words between the two sides erupted after the chief spokesperson of the Taksal, Charanjit Singh Jassowal, issued death threats to “Sikh preacher” during a meeting held at the Taksal headquarters at Gurdwara Gurdarshan Parkash, Chowk Mehta, near Amritsar, on May 20.
A meeting was called there to discus the events to be undertaken by the Taksal to observe the anniversary of Operation Bluestar on June 6. It was in the presence of seminary head Harnam Singh Dhumma and other religious leaders, SGPC members and various groups that Jassowal advocated the murder of Sikh parcharaks, and more specifically directed his threats towards Dhadrianwale.
Though the Taksal on Thursday dissociated its head from Jassowal’s statement, claiming that the seminary head had not approved it, the video of the event went viral on the social media. Following this, Dhadrianwale, too, posted a 30-minute video, calling these threats as religious “gundagardi”.
Raking up the two-year-old case wherein Taksal members had led an attack on his cavalcade near Ludhiana in which one of his aides was killed, Dhadrianwale questioned the silence of the Akal Takht on the matter. The preacher also explained that his religious discourses were based on facts, as written in “Gurbani”.
After the matter caused a stir on the social media, the government responded to the issue, which has the capacity to snowball into a major controversy in the state.