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Separate SGPC for Haryana

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This is a long-pending demand of the Sikhs: Hooda

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Thursday spoke in favour of setting up a separate Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) for managing the Sikh religious places in Haryana.

Speaking on a resolution for formation of a separate SGPC moved by Congress MLA Nirmal Singh in the Vidhan Sabha, Mr. Hooda said this was a long-pending demand of the Sikh community in Haryana. Stating that the Sikhs were a minority community in Haryana, he said it was the "moral duty of the State Government to value their sentiments and protect their interests''.

Committee

He apprised the House that a committee set up under the Chairmanship of Agriculture Minister H.S. Chatha to examine this demand was yet to submit its report. A large number of affidavits received by the committee had advocated a separate SGPC for the State, he added.

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