Months af­ter the gen­eral elec­tions were held for the Takht Har­mandir Patna Sahib Com­mit­tee un­der the Takht Har­mandir Sahib Gur­d­wara Man­age­ment Act, 1956, DS­GMC nom­i­nee and for­mer leg­is­la­tor from Delhi, Av­tar Singh Hit was unan­i­mously elected as the Pres­i­dent of the Takht Har­mandir Patna Sahib Board.

Out of the 15 mem­ber com­mit­tee, one mem­ber has still to be nom­i­nated.

Af­ter a lot of be­hind-the-scenes wran­gling, em­i­nent med­ical pro­fes­sional Dr Gurmeet Singh from Luc­know was elected as the Sr VP, In­der­jit Singh of Tatana­gar as the Vice Pres­i­dent and lo­cal Sikh lead­ers from Patna Mo­hin­der Pal Singh Dhillon and Mo­hin­der Singh as gen­eral sec­re­tary and sec­re­tary re­spec­tively.

To en­sure the hold of the rul­ing Shi­ro­mani Akali Dal Badal lead­er­ship at Patna, Pun­jab Akali leader Bal­winder Singh Bhun­dar and Delhi leg­is­la­tor Man­jin­der Singh Sirsa were camp­ing in Patna as ob­servers for the se­lec­tion. Ranchi leader Gurvin­der Singh Sethi was also a par­tic­i­pant in the de­lib­er­a­tions lead­ing to the se­lec­tion of the Ex­ec­u­tive Com­mit­tee mem­bers. SGPC Pres­i­dent Gob­ind Singh Lon­gowal too was pre­sent in his ca­pac­ity as nom­i­nee of SGPC.

The newly elected mem­bers were ho­n­oured at the Takht Sahib by Jathedar Gi­ani Iqbal Singh. The of­fice bear­ers an­nounced that they would con­cen­trate on Dharam Par­char in the re­gion of Bi­har and Jhark­hand. They also said that they would al­ways strive to main­tain a good bal­ance of rep­re­sen­ta­tion be­tween Bi­har, Jhark­hand and Bi­har.

Se­nior lead­ers of the Sikhs from Bi­har, Jhark­hand and Ben­gal were pre­sent on the oc­ca­sion. Harpal Singh Jo­hal of Bi­har Akali Dal, Union leader and leader of Sikh Sewa So­ci­ety Sewa Singh, Co­or­di­na­tors of the Jhark­hand Sikh Pra­tinidhi Board Har­min­der Singh, Sur­jit Singh Khu­shipur, Sukhvin­der Singh Raju, Gur­cha­ran Singh Billa, Ran­greta Ma­hasabha lead­ers Man­jit Singh Gill and Kuldip Singh, Kati­har Bi­har leader Gurvin­der Singh, Sasaram rep­re­sen­ta­tive Sarvjit Singh Khalsa, poet Jasvir Singh Mat­te­wal, Cen­tral Sikh Nau­jawan Sabha gen­eral sec­re­tary Daman­preet Singh were all ho­n­oured at the Takht.