Sikhs, Hindus Condemn Article

June 4, 2007

Author: UMENDRA SINGH

Source: 24 Hours

http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/2007/06/04/4232217-sun.html

A joint meeting of Sikh and Hindu leaders Sunday condemned a local newspaper for publishing an article calling for the destruction of a 16th century Hindu temple in Punjab.

The president of the Vedic Hindu Cultural Society, Amrit Lal Arora, said the article in a Punjabi-language newspaper based in Surrey could incite religious hatred.

A spokesman for the Society, Vinay Sharma, said the article stated that the Durgiana Hindu temple in Amritsar, Punjab, should be destroyed because it was copy of the Harminder Sahib, the holiest Sikh shrine in Golden Temple in Amritsar as well.

Over the last two weeks, there was been violence in Punjab after a sect leader tried to imitate the last Guru of Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singhji.