
New Delhi: Pakistan never fails to hurt the sentiments of Indians, now devotees visiting Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan’s Kartarpur have accused the authorities of using disposable paper plates made of cigarette packaging material to distribute prasad.
According to the reports by Livehindustan, several devotes have expressed their displeasure and have accused the Pakistan government of playing with religious sentiments of the Sikh community.
Also, some of the pictures that are being circulate don social media platforms shows picture of a cigarette brand ‘Gold Street’ on the one side of the plate.
Soon after this the issue was raised by some devotees who visited gurudwara.
Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (PSGPC) said the issue has come to their notice few days back.
Photos of cigarettes are used in the wrapping paper for distributing Prasad to devotees at Kartarpur & Nankana Sahib.
This is utterly unacceptable & an insult to our religious values. This should be immediately stopped. @parbhandak look into the matter @rsrobin1 @vikramsahney pic.twitter.com/0rbEknELsF— The Turban Talk (@turban_talk) December 17, 2021
The President of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee and BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa has also condemned the incident calling it a “conspiracy to hurt the faith and harass minority Sikhs in Pakistan.”
Sikh sentiments hurt repetitively in Pak
This time Sangat given Kadah Prashad in Cigarette wrapper pages at Gurdwara Sri Kartarpur Sahib. This smacks of a conspiracy to hurt our faith & harass minority Sikhs in Pak. Earlier, they allowed models to shoot at Gurdwara Sahib premises pic.twitter.com/P1G1RXqs9Q— Manjinder Singh Sirsa (@mssirsa) December 17, 2021
We will not accept such hurtful actions and demand from @ImranKhanPTI Ji strict action against Gurdwara managing authority
Such actions embarrass Sikhs all across the world esp when Sikhism is so much against tobacco@ANi @republic @ZeeNews @TimesNow @thetribunechd @punjabkesari https://t.co/R4vhcxOOC0 pic.twitter.com/lu2WoS8ko0
— Manjinder Singh Sirsa (@mssirsa) December 17, 2021