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June 17, 2026, 05:57 PM - 4 min read
The controversy dates back to January when Mann was summoned by the Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of Sikhs. He was accused of making remarks about 'Guru ki Golak' and allegedly engaging in objectionable conduct in a video that featured images of Sikh Gurus and Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.
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June 17, 2026, 01:36 PM - 7 min read
The Akal Takht does not hold any legal authority. But as an institution, it commands moral and divine authority over the Sikhs. The Akal Takht is always the last word in the Sikh affairs. Never ever in recorded history has anyone defied the Akal Takht edicts/ orders.
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June 16, 2026, 03:26 PM - 6 min read
Mann has often dared his opponents to play on “their pitch”. This time, the Akalis seem to have thrown a challenge back at him on a pitch where it is not easy for a non-Panthic party to play. The battle does not stop here, particularly when it concerns religion. People are highly emotive and sensitive towards religious matters, where they are not even ready to give benefit of doubt.
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June 16, 2026, 03:19 PM - 3 min read
Mann took a defiant stand, saying that the person in the controversial video was not him. In a video statement, he said while he has the utmost respect and reverence for the Akal Takht, its present-day officials, whom he described as political appointees, were serving their political masters by making false allegations against him.
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June 15, 2026, 06:26 PM - 3 min read
The Akal Takht on Monday declared Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann a “Guru Dokhi” (one opposed to the Guru) and “Panth Virodhi” (against the Sikh community), citing an objectionable video allegedly showing him engaged in conduct that hurt Sikh religious sentiments.
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June 12, 2026, 06:11 PM - 6 min read
Till now, Punjab has never thrown a hung verdict. However, given the situation prevailing right now, the outcome is going to be quite uncertain.
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June 12, 2026, 05:05 PM - 3 min read
The incident took place on Wednesday night during an Akhand Path. According to reports, the man entered the sanctum, performed a parkarma (circumambulation) around the Guru Granth Sahib and suddenly picked up the Sri Sahib placed before it. Sewadars present at the shrine immediately intervened and overpowered the man before handing him over to the police. The accused is currently in police custody.
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May 31, 2026, 07:15 PM - 4 min read
Congratulating the students for their outstanding achievements, Mann said, "Such functions were never organised in the past because previous governments never paid attention to education, particularly in government schools.
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May 29, 2026, 09:48 AM - 2 min read
AAP takes a strong lead in Punjab civic polls with 178 ward wins, while Congress secures 58 as counting continues across 103 municipal bodies.
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May 28, 2026, 05:19 PM - 6 min read
The BJP does not necessarily pick up strong and powerful as its leaders. Take the example of Nitin Nabin, who was elevated as party president when nobody outside Bihar knew about him. Dhillon is exactly the repeat of the Nabin experiment. However, unlike Nabin who is relatively younger, Dhillon is already 75, an age at which the BJP normally retires everyone, barring a few exceptions.
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May 24, 2026, 03:38 PM - 2 min read
Demanding the resignation of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, the BJP general secretary said in a press statement that the “cold-blooded murder” of a police employee while on duty has exposed serious insecurity in the state.
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May 23, 2026, 02:53 PM - 2 min read
Earlier on May 18, a Gurugram sessions court sent AAP leader Sanjeev Arora to two weeks of judicial custody after his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case.
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