Shameful Defeat for Toronto's anti-Sikh Lobby

Brampton, Canada (KP) – On Sunday October 22nd, Inder Ghagga and his Toronto accomplices suffered a shameful defeat upon the issuance of a sandesh from Sri Akal Takht Sahib stating the boycott and summons of Ghagga and associates, and the cancellation of their anti-Panthic seminar.

It seems nothing appears to be going right for Inder Ghagga. Not long ago, he was chased off a stage at an east coast US Gurdwara, and then he suffered a humiliating defeat in a debate, the video having been widely circulated worldwide via the Internet. Now Sri Akal Takht Sahib has banned him from utilizing any Gurdwara or Panthic stage.

Adding insult to injury, a function that was to be held at the Premier Banquet Hall in Brampton in honor of Ghagga was cancelled at the last minute reportedly by the property owners out of respect for Sri Akal Takht Sahib’s sandesh. In light of the Panthic boycott, the management of the Premium Banquet Hall denied the pseudo-scholars access to their facilities. This announcement of the refusal by the Premier Banquet Hall was made on Rangla Punjab radio a day before the event was to take place.

Panthic Sangat outside the Premier Banquet Hall, the venue for Ghagga's cancelled Seminar

Ghagga supporters, out of desperation and frustration, initially charged that the sandesh from Sri Akal Takht Sahib was a counterfeit document produced locally by the Toronto Sangat, but then as expected, began to criticize the sandesh and the authority of Sri Akal Takht Sahib.

The sandesh from Sri Akal Takht Sahib ordered a boycott of Inder S Ghagga along with is supporters Gurcharan S Jeeonwala, Manjit S Sihota, Karamjit S Gill, Amandeep S Kang, Gurmit Sinh, Parminder S Parmar, and Jasbir S Mangat. Ghagga has been asked to stop his anti-Sikh propaganda, appear before Sri Akal Takht Sahib and ask for public forgiveness. Until then, the Sikh Sangat is instructed to continue the ban against them.

Even the much extolled Sikh Missionary College of Ludhiana has distanced itself from the man who is following in the footsteps of Gurbaksh Kala-Afghana to avoid possible excommunication from the Sikh Panth. According to the Tribune, a emergency meeting was held at Chandigarh where the college management stated that “Ghagga was not a student of the college and so was not its alumnus…. Ghagga had no connection with Sikh Missionary College (Ludhiana), whatsoever.”

In the ongoing battle against pseudo-scholars such as Ghagga and their attempt to distort Gurbani and the Sikh tenets, the Panth must join together to ensure the roots of Sikhi remain strong despite the efforts of those who would seek to undermine it.