Badals will suck out every penny of community: SADD

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, May 16

As DSGMC president Manjinder Singh Sirsa called for a meeting with Delhi's billionaire Sikhs purportedly for the financial bailout of the bankrupt gurdwara committee, the Shiromani Akali Dal (Delhi) warned that the Badals are out to suck every penny out of the community in the capital in the name of charity.

"Sirsa is GK 2," SADD secretary-general Harvinder Singh Sarna said.

Asked to explain, the panthak leader drew the sangat's attention toward the acts of the "RSS-appointed president" of the DSGMC.

"He spared no funds to clear salary dues of the poor gurdwara staff. He spared no funds to clear arrears of the GHP Schools staff. But he routed the Sangat's Dasvandh to finance the Badals in their campaigns in Punjab," Sarna said.

Distressed staff of Guru Hargobind Institute of Management and IT had to move court for their 11-month dues, the SADD leader observed. Employees of GHP Schools are struggling to meet their ends because of non-payment of salaries, he said.

"It's a clear writing on the wall that the Badals are biting the dust in these elections and so is Modi at the central level. Any vested interest would be gladly disappointed for any such investment into Sirsa's advice," Sarna said.

The SADD leader, at the same time, cautioned pro-sewa Sikh tycoons against the Badals' emotional blackmailing. "Any money Sirsa solicits on Thursday would eventually land into the coffers of anti-Sikh forces. Sikh billionaires must keep the guard up. Your charity will eventually be used against gurmat, against the Sikhs and their doctrine via Sirsa," Sarna warned.