{"id":6967,"date":"2017-10-06T10:44:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T10:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=6967"},"modified":"2017-10-06T10:44:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T10:44:23","slug":"akal-takht-summons-bhattal-manpreets-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/akal-takht-summons-bhattal-manpreets-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Akal Takht summons Bhattal, Manpreet\u2019s son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amritsar,<br \/>\nAkal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh today condemned former CM Rajinder Kaur Bhattal and Arjun Singh Badal (son of Finance Minister<\/p>\n<p>Manpreet Badal) for not appearing before Takht to submit their apology for visiting the Sirsa dera ahead of the Assembly elections early this<\/p>\n<p>year.<\/p>\n<p>The Jathedar said: \u201cBoth Bhattal and Arjun are directed to appear before Akal Takht as early as possible otherwise they will face stern action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Akal Takht had, on April 17, awarded \u2018tankhah\u2019 (religious punishment) to 39 political leaders after finding them guilty of violating its May 2007<\/p>\n<p>edict to boycott dera head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh over his alleged impersonation of Guru Gobind Singh. Akali leader Janmeja Singh<\/p>\n<p>Sekhon, Bhattal and Arjun had failed to turn up. Sekhon, however, appeared on May 6 and abided by the norms of \u201ctankhah\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Jathedar also summoned the president of Gurdwara Chhota Ghallughara in Qadian, Master Johar Singh, on October 13 to<\/p>\n<p>clarify his stance over the controversy that was triggered after the alleged involvement of a top gurdwara management official in a sex scandal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amritsar, Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh today condemned former CM Rajinder Kaur Bhattal and Arjun Singh Badal (son of Finance Minister Manpreet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6969,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967\/revisions\/6969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}