Nihangs decide to stay put at Singhu border

Sonepat, October 27

All nine Nihang groups at the Singhu border decided at a mahapanchayat on Wednesday to stay put at the protest site while the SKM distanced itself from the meeting. Nihangs claimed they arrived at the the decision after taking public opinion in the matter both online and offline.

The four-hour mahapanchayat held at Bharat Plaza in Singhu was attended by jathedars of various Nihang groups among others, said Baba Balwinder Singh of Panth Akali Nirvair Khalsa, Udna Dal.

The decisions of the mahapanchayat would be formally announced tomorrow at a press meet, he added. The Nihangs also decided that Baba Aman Singh, who was seen with the Union Minister of Agriculture in a photograph, would stay at the Singhu border till the court decision in the Lakhbir lynching case. — TNS