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The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (abbr. SGPC; lit. Supreme Gurdwara Management Committee) is an organization in India responsible for the management of gurdwaras , Sikh places of worship, in the states of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh and the union territory of Chandigarh .
Custody of historic Sikh shrines would pass to the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, a Sikh-led committee. [2] The SGPC, formed in 1920, was defined as consisting of 120 practicing Sikhs, the heads of the Panj Takht (five primary Sikh gurdwaras), 12 appointees from the Princely States, and "14 co-opted members". [4]
Paramjit Kaur Landran [3] (Punjabi: ਪਰਮਜੀਤ ਕੌਰ ਲਾਂਡਰਾਂ) (born 29 September 1971) is a lawyer, member of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee for Mohali constituency representing the Shiromani Akali Dal. She was elected to the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee House in the elections held on 18 September ...
The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee comprises 55 members, 46 of whom are elected and 9 are coopted. Out of the nine coopted members, two represent the Singh Sabhas of Delhi, one the SGPC, four the Takhts at Amritsar Sahib, Anandpur Sahib, Patna Sahib and Nanded, and two those Sikhs of Delhi who do not want to or cannot contest elections but whose services can be of value to the committee.
The movement led to the introduction of the Sikh Gurdwara Bill in 1925, which placed all the historical Sikh shrines in India under the control of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC). The Akalis also participated in the Indian independence movement against the British Government, and supported the non-cooperation movement against them.
In the absence of Baba Kharak Singh in jail, Mehtab Singh acted as President of Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee. He was again arrested in the Gurdwara Guru ka Bagh agitation in 1922. In October 1923 when SGPC and SAD were declared unlawful organisations, he again with other leaders detained.
Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee was formed in August 1921 with an ultimate object to take over the management of all historical Gurdwaras and Baba Kharak Singh was elected as President. In 1921-22 he successfully led the first Morcha (agitation) against the British government (November, 1921), which is popularly known as the Keys Morcha.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... President of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee; R. Rashtriya Sikh Sangat; S. Sachkhoj ...