Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami today assured a Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) delegation led by its president Sukhbir Singh Badal that land would be allotted for gurdwara Sri Gian Godri Sahib at Haridwar. An assurance to this effect was given to the SAD delegation which called on the chief minister this morning. CM Uttarakhand Pushkar Dhami assured to facilitate the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) in finalizing the site for the gurdwara.
An SGPC team will visit Haridwar shortly for this purpose.
Thanking Dhami for understanding and respecting the sentiments of the Sikh community, the SAD president said “it is a matter of great pride that the SAD has been able to resolve a long pending demand of the Panth to reestablish a gurdwara at Haridwar to mark the first Udasi of Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji”.
Sukhbir Badal also disclosed while talking to newsmen here that the Uttarakhand chief minister had also agreed to intercede and resolve the grievances of thousands of farmers of Bazpur in Udham Singh Nagar district who were facing ceiling notices as well as restrictions on the sale of their lands which they had taken on lease more than seventy years back.
He said the resolution of this case involving 4,805 acres of land in Bazpur would be a huge relief to the hard-working Sikh farmers of Uttarakhand who had turned the jungles of Uttarakhand into lush fields with their sweat and blood.
Giving details, Badal said thousands of people settled in 20 villages of Tehsil Bazpur had been recorded as Bhumidars with transferable rights for the past 50 years across 4805 acres of land. He said besides agriculture fields, factories, markets, residential colonies, and schools were situated in the area which had been given on lease under Crown Grants Act 1895 from August 1920 till 2013.
Badal said though the case is still in court, the Udham Singh Nagar magistrate had issued ceiling notices to the land owners besides putting restrictions on the sale and purchase of the said land.
