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The local police has fortified Sector 32,near Vardhman Spinning Mills,Chandigarh Road,where religious meet the controversial godman,Ashutosh Maharaj will begin on December 5.
With protests against this meet surfacing,the police have tightened the security around the area of the meet which now sports a khakhi look. Meanwhile,backed by no major Sikh radical or any other group,a section of Sikhs,who hails primarily from the Kalgidhar gurudwara area,held a protest dharna at Jagraon bridge here today demanding a ban on this meeting. The Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan,a dera headed by this godman,has been on the hit list of the Sikhs since the 80s after the godman spoke against the Sikh Gurus and Guru Granth Sahib.
The meeting site was visited by top officials of the district administration and police officials here today to review the situation. The police have already called in for reinforcement to avoid any outward incident.
Meanwhile,Avtar Singh Makkar,president,Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandhak Committee,when asked about the godman’s meeting,said,”What the government is doing is correct. Whatever decision it will take will be correct.” When told that the meeting was scheduled to be held on December 5,Makkar changed his stance and said,”I am not aware about this meeting as I am not in the town.”
SP City (3),Harjinder Singh,when contacted,said,”We have called in five to seven companies of the IRB and deputed them at the meeting of the site. There is a heavy deployment of the police just to see that there is no law and order problem.”
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