Chandigarh: In a final minute change of resolution, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) introduced Friday that whereas it’s going to start relaying dwell gurbani from the Golden Temple by its personal YouTube channel from 24 July, the present association of a personal TV channel will proceed for a while.
Saying the choice by video message, SGPC normal secretary Gurcharan Singh Grewal stated there have been apprehensions about SGPC’s YouTube channel reaching each devotee following which it was determined that until the SGPC begins its personal TV channel, the non-public channel PTC would proceed past its contract interval that ends 23 July.
ਸੈਟੇਲਾਈਟ ਟੀਵੀ ‘ਤੇ ਗੁਰਬਾਣੀ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਰਣ ਸਬੰਧੀ ਜਥੇਦਾਰ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਅਕਾਲ ਤਖ਼ਤ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਦੇ ਆਦੇਸ਼ ਮਗਰੋਂ SGPC ਵੱਲੋਂ ਅਹਿਮ ਅਪੀਲ#SriDarbarSahib #SriHarmandirSahib #GurbaniTelecast #Amritsar #SGPC #ਸ੍ਰੀਦਰਬਾਰਸਾਹਿਬ #ਸ੍ਰੀਹਰਿਮੰਦਰਸਾਹਿਬ #ਗੁਰਬਾਣੀਪ੍ਰਸਾਰਣ #ਗੁਰਬਾਣੀ #ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਸਰ #ਸ਼੍ਰੌਮਣੀਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾਪ੍ਰਬੰਧਕਕਮੇਟੀ pic.twitter.com/iBbajtaent
— Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (@SGPCAmritsar) July 21, 2023
Owned by Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal, PTC has held the rights of relaying dwell the gurbani from the Golden Temple for the previous 11 years.
Final week, SGPC president Harjinder Singh Dhami had introduced that following the tip of its contract with the PTC on 23 July, the SGPC would launch its personal YouTube channel 24 July to relay the gurbani dwell from the Golden Temple and in addition begin its personal TV channel in a number of months. Within the interim, the SGPC had determined to rent the companies of another TV channel to broadcast gurbani.
The SGPC, an elected physique chargeable for managing historic gurdwaras in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh, historically has shut ties with the SAD. Questions on PTC’s unique rights to relay gurbani have been typically raised by the Congress and the AAP. The broad allegation has been that the Akalis train management over the SGPC functioning to additional its political pursuits.
Reacting to the SGPC resolution, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann questioned whether or not it was an try and once more give a personal channel the rights to proceed relaying gurbani.
ਹੈਰਾਨੀ ਦੀ ਗੱਲ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਐੱਸਜੀਪੀਸੀ ਇੱਕ ਨਿੱਜੀ ਚੈਨਲ ਨੂੰ ਹੀ ਬੇਨਤੀ ਕਰ ਰਹੀ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਪਵਿੱਤਰ ਗੁਰਬਾਣੀ ਦਾ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਰਣ ਕਰਦੇ ਰਹੋ..ਬਾਕੀਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਕਿਉਂ ਨਹੀਂ ?? ਕੀ ਉਹ ਚੈਨਲ ਰਾਹੀਂ ਇੱਕ ਪਰਿਵਾਰ ਨੂੰ ਫੇਰ ਅਨਿਸ਼ਚਤ ਸਮੇਂ ਲਈ ਗੁਰਬਾਣੀ ਦੇ ਅਧਿਕਾਰ ਦੇ ਦਿੱਤੇ ਜਾਣਗੇ ?? ਲਾਲਚ ਦੀ ਹੱਦ ਹੁੰਦੀ ਐ..
— Bhagwant Mann (@BhagwantMann) July 21, 2023
The SGPC, Mann stated in another tweet, ought to make it clear about permitting all channels to relay the gurbani from July 24 freed from value. If the Punjab authorities is given this service, it might make all preparations inside 24 hours, he added.
In Could, the Punjab chief minister had objected to the SGPC granting the rights of relay to a single non-public channel. In June, the AAP authorities handed a Invoice amending the 1925 Sikh Gurdwaras Act so as to add a clause that the rights to relay the holy gurbani from the Golden Temple ought to be given to all TV and social media channels.
Nonetheless, the Invoice has not been signed by Governor Banwarilal Purohit, who knowledgeable the Mann authorities that the session throughout which it was handed was not a legally legitimate session.
The SGPC has persistently objected to the Mann authorities transfer, saying that this was a direct interference of the federal government within the spiritual affairs of the Sikhs.
On Friday, Grewal stated that ever for the reason that resolution to relay dwell gurbani by its YouTube channel was taken, the SGPC had acquired a deluge of enquiries about how the system will make sure that each devotee is ready to obtain it.
Given the apprehensions being confronted by the devotees, Grewal stated, the Akal Takth (the best temporal physique of the Sikhs) had directed the SGPC to proceed with the present association additionally and permit PTC to relay the gurbani until the Committee is ready to arrange its personal satellite tv for pc tv.
The SGPC has already written to the Centre to permit its personal tv channel and had additionally sought time from the minister for a delegation to fulfill him on this regard, he added.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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