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Gurbani (14-53)
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Pahre (74-78)
Chhant (78-81)
Vanjara (81-82)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
Gurbani (94-109)
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Bara Maha (133-136)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
Quartets/Couplets (185-220)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
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Kaafee (365-409)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਗੂਜਰੀ | Raag Goojaree
Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
Vaar Gujari (517-526)
ਰਾਗੁ ਦੇਵਗੰਧਾਰੀ | Raag Dayv-Gandhaaree
Gurbani (527-536)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਹਾਗੜਾ | Raag Bihaagraa
Gurbani (537-556)
Chhant (538-548)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਵਡਹੰਸ | Raag Wadhans
Gurbani (557-564)
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Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਸੋਰਠਿ | Raag Sorath
Gurbani (595-634)
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Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਤਸਰੀ | Raag Jaitsree
Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
Bhagat Bani (710)
ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
ਰਾਗੁ ਬੈਰਾੜੀ | Raag Bairaaree
ਰਾਗੁ ਤਿਲੰਗ | Raag Tilang
Gurbani (721-727)
Bhagat Bani (727)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੂਹੀ | Raag Suhi
Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
Kaafee (761-762)
Suchajee (762)
Gunvantee (763)
Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
Bhagat Bani (792-794)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਲਾਵਲੁ | Raag Bilaaval
Gurbani (795-831)
Ashtpadiyan (831-838)
Thitteen (838-840)
Vaar Sat (841-843)
Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
Bhagat Bani (855-858)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
Ashtpadiyan (869)
Bhagat Bani (870-875)
ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
Ashtpadiyan (902-916)
Gurbani (876-902)
Anand (917-922)
Sadd (923-924)
Chhant (924-929)
Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
Gurbani (975-980)
Ashtpadiyan (980-983)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਲੀ ਗਉੜਾ | Raag Maalee Gauraa
Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
Ashtpadiyan (1016-1019)
Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
Chhant (1110-1117)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਸੰਤੁ | Raag Basant
Gurbani (1168-1187)
Ashtpadiyan (1187-1193)
Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਾਰਗ | Raag Saarag
Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਲਾਰ | Raag Malaar
Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
Vaar Malaar (1278-91)
Bhagat Bani (1292-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
Bhagat Bani (1318)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਲਿਆਨ | Raag Kalyaan
Gurbani (1319-23)
Ashtpadiyan (1323-26)
ਰਾਗੁ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਤੀ | Raag Prabhaatee
Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਜਾਵੰਤੀ | Raag Jaijaiwanti
Gurbani (1352-53)
Salok | Gatha | Phunahe | Chaubole | Swayiye
Sehskritee Mahala 1
Sehskritee Mahala 5
Gaathaa Mahala 5
Phunhay Mahala 5
Chaubolae Mahala 5
Shaloks Bhagat Kabir
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Swaiyyae Mahala 5
Swaiyyae in Praise of Gurus
Shaloks in Addition To Vaars
Shalok Ninth Mehl
Mundavanee Mehl 5
ਰਾਗ ਮਾਲਾ, Raag Maalaa
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<blockquote data-quote="spnadmin" data-source="post: 90153" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>Who is Gursikh? Who is trapped in Maya?</p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>‘SGPC is Run by Akali Dal, What’s Your Doubt Exactly?’</strong></span></p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #808080">Sach Kanwal Singh</span></strong></span></p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #808080"></span></strong></span></p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #808080"></span></strong></span> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>AMRITSAR:</strong> If it has happened umpteen times in the past, could it be news? Well, it is news so long as we keep missing the gravity of it all. In a complete go by to the last vestiges of democratic norms, Punjab’s ruling Akali Dal which enjoys brute majority in the SGPC asked its recently-baptized president Sukhbir Singh Badal to choose a president for the Mini Parliament of the Sikhs.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Shamelessly, he did. Instead of raising the traditions of consultations, debate, democratic discourse and freedom of choice, Sukhbir simply went ahead and chose not just the president but each of the office bearers.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">When Avtar Singh Makkar had become president for the first time, a leading English daily in </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Punjab</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"> had written that Falstaff had become the president. Now, Falstaff seemed to be entrenched in the tragi-comic drama that the annual SGPC election has become.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Moments after his election, Makkar The Falstaff had a gift wrapped for the community which he was quick to reveal: No memorial for the victims and martyrs of Operation Bluestar, he has not even heard of the resolution passed by the SGPC, and said there was no such move.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">At a time when the </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Surrey</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"> sangat has demonstrated its resolve to prepare the next generation for governance of gurdwaras and move ahead beyond the luggage of history and divisiveness, </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Punjab</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">’s Akalis are moving in the reverse direction.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">All power is being concentrated within one family’s fold, and those within the system have made their peace with the little slice of power and pelf that the Family has thrown their way. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><img src="http://worldsikhnews.com/26%20November%202008/Image/avtar%20singh.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />So there were no discordant voices and no one claimed that the right to free election has been virtually taken away as Avtar Singh Makkar was nominated (yes, nominated) as the president of the SGPC for the fourth straight term. </span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Within minutes, he paid his share of the tribute to the way the SGPC functions. “The SGPC decision making is done by the party, our Akali Dal. Whatever the Akali Dal leadership decides, the SGPC runs as per that. What is so new about it?” It was not clear whether Makkar was being candid or innocent, but one thing was. We sure are doomed to live, as the Chinese say, in interesting times. </span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Before the SGPC poll day, the annual ritual was taken over by the son from papa CM. Akali Dal members of the SGPC got together in </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Chandigarh and authorized Sukhbir Singh Badal to choose them a president for the SGPC. Earlier, they used to vest all rights in Badal Sr. The power transition has become a process instead of a one step decision.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Sukhbir was entrusted with the onerous task within days of getting himself baptized last September. He did not flinch for a second.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">No wonder, Makkar’s agenda was clear to the world. The Hindustan Times said it was to “work as per the wishes of SAD president Sukhbir Badal”.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Earlier, Pardhan Sahibs used to tumble out of a “lifaafa’, and were never sure till the last moment what Badal Sahib’s “lifaafa” may reveal, this time Makkar was smug. He knew he was sitting inside the “lifaafa” and will jump out for the fourth time. He did. Good you guessed. Too bad we all did. It tells the state of the community.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Thanks to the clarity that Makkar and Sukhbir display, the relationship is easy to guess for the media. Raghujit Singh Virk from Haryana was elected senior vice-president, Gurdev Singh Badal junior vice-president and Sukhdev Singh Bhaur as general secretary. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The committee also nominated ten Badal loyalist members and an opposition member to its Executive.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Makkar thanked Sukhbir, then Badal Sr, then a few other members of the Family and then thought it fit to thank Akal Purakh also. It seemed quite an afterthought, and he walked to the Darbar Sahib to bow his head with cameras panning all around.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">There was some acrimony over issue of a separate SGPC for Haryana and Makkar displayed a distance of light years from something called humility when he snubbed opposition SGPC member Jagdish Singh Jhinda.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">On his part, Jhinda did play his card by proposing Karnail Singh Panjoli’s name for presidentship but Panjoli clearly knew the rules of the party that he has joined recently. He said Makkar was more competent. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The only element different this time was that while earlier Pardhan Sahibs used to tumble out of a “lifaafa’, and were never sure till the last moment what Badal Sahib’s “lifaafa” may reveal, this time Makkar was smug. He knew he was sitting inside the “lifaafa” and will jump out for the fourth time. Kya Chowka Maara hai, Pardhan Jiyo. Guru Bhala Kare.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">26 November </span></span></span><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">2008</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #999999"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spnadmin, post: 90153, member: 35"] Who is Gursikh? Who is trapped in Maya? [SIZE=4][COLOR=#ff0000][COLOR=#999999][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000080] [CENTER][SIZE=2][B]‘SGPC is Run by Akali Dal, What’s Your Doubt Exactly?’ [COLOR=#808080]Sach Kanwal Singh[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#808080] [/COLOR][/B][/SIZE] [/CENTER] [SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]AMRITSAR:[/B] If it has happened umpteen times in the past, could it be news? Well, it is news so long as we keep missing the gravity of it all. In a complete go by to the last vestiges of democratic norms, Punjab’s ruling Akali Dal which enjoys brute majority in the SGPC asked its recently-baptized president Sukhbir Singh Badal to choose a president for the Mini Parliament of the Sikhs.[/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Shamelessly, he did. Instead of raising the traditions of consultations, debate, democratic discourse and freedom of choice, Sukhbir simply went ahead and chose not just the president but each of the office bearers.[/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]When Avtar Singh Makkar had become president for the first time, a leading English daily in [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Punjab[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] had written that Falstaff had become the president. Now, Falstaff seemed to be entrenched in the tragi-comic drama that the annual SGPC election has become.[/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Moments after his election, Makkar The Falstaff had a gift wrapped for the community which he was quick to reveal: No memorial for the victims and martyrs of Operation Bluestar, he has not even heard of the resolution passed by the SGPC, and said there was no such move. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]At a time when the [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Surrey[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] sangat has demonstrated its resolve to prepare the next generation for governance of gurdwaras and move ahead beyond the luggage of history and divisiveness, [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Punjab[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]’s Akalis are moving in the reverse direction. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]All power is being concentrated within one family’s fold, and those within the system have made their peace with the little slice of power and pelf that the Family has thrown their way. [/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][IMG]http://worldsikhnews.com/26%20November%202008/Image/avtar%20singh.jpg[/IMG]So there were no discordant voices and no one claimed that the right to free election has been virtually taken away as Avtar Singh Makkar was nominated (yes, nominated) as the president of the SGPC for the fourth straight term. [/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Within minutes, he paid his share of the tribute to the way the SGPC functions. “The SGPC decision making is done by the party, our Akali Dal. Whatever the Akali Dal leadership decides, the SGPC runs as per that. What is so new about it?” It was not clear whether Makkar was being candid or innocent, but one thing was. We sure are doomed to live, as the Chinese say, in interesting times. [/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Before the SGPC poll day, the annual ritual was taken over by the son from papa CM. Akali Dal members of the SGPC got together in [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Chandigarh and authorized Sukhbir Singh Badal to choose them a president for the SGPC. Earlier, they used to vest all rights in Badal Sr. The power transition has become a process instead of a one step decision.[/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Sukhbir was entrusted with the onerous task within days of getting himself baptized last September. He did not flinch for a second.[/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]No wonder, Makkar’s agenda was clear to the world. The Hindustan Times said it was to “work as per the wishes of SAD president Sukhbir Badal”. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Earlier, Pardhan Sahibs used to tumble out of a “lifaafa’, and were never sure till the last moment what Badal Sahib’s “lifaafa” may reveal, this time Makkar was smug. He knew he was sitting inside the “lifaafa” and will jump out for the fourth time. He did. Good you guessed. Too bad we all did. It tells the state of the community. [/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Thanks to the clarity that Makkar and Sukhbir display, the relationship is easy to guess for the media. Raghujit Singh Virk from Haryana was elected senior vice-president, Gurdev Singh Badal junior vice-president and Sukhdev Singh Bhaur as general secretary. [/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]The committee also nominated ten Badal loyalist members and an opposition member to its Executive.[/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Makkar thanked Sukhbir, then Badal Sr, then a few other members of the Family and then thought it fit to thank Akal Purakh also. It seemed quite an afterthought, and he walked to the Darbar Sahib to bow his head with cameras panning all around.[/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]There was some acrimony over issue of a separate SGPC for Haryana and Makkar displayed a distance of light years from something called humility when he snubbed opposition SGPC member Jagdish Singh Jhinda.[/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]On his part, Jhinda did play his card by proposing Karnail Singh Panjoli’s name for presidentship but Panjoli clearly knew the rules of the party that he has joined recently. He said Makkar was more competent. [/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]The only element different this time was that while earlier Pardhan Sahibs used to tumble out of a “lifaafa’, and were never sure till the last moment what Badal Sahib’s “lifaafa” may reveal, this time Makkar was smug. He knew he was sitting inside the “lifaafa” and will jump out for the fourth time. Kya Chowka Maara hai, Pardhan Jiyo. Guru Bhala Kare.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [SIZE=2][COLOR=#999999][FONT=Arial]26 November [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][COLOR=#999999][FONT=Arial]2008[/FONT][/COLOR] [/COLOR][/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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