Takht Jathedars de­clare 25 De­cem­ber as Guru Gob­ind Singh an­niver­sary even though Sikhs are con­founded and an­gry at Parkash Purab and Sahibzadas Sha­heedi Fort­night falling dur­ing the same pe­riod as per the Akal Takht-SGPC amended Nanakshahi cal­en­dar.

The de­ci­sion by the Jathedars at the Akal Takht meet­ing to ob­serve the Birth an­niver­sary of Guru Gob­ind Singh on 25 De­cem­ber will have far reach­ing im­pli­ca­tions on Sikh so­ci­ety as well as mar the re­la­tion­ship be­tween Jathedar Akal Takht and the SGPC. Con­tin­u­ing to con­found the Sikhs by forc­ing them to hold the Birth An­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions of the Tenth Mas­ter and to be ob­serve the mar­tyr­dom day of the Sahibzadas -the younger sons of Guru Gob­ind Singh dur­ing the Sha­heedi week in the last week of De­cem­ber is un­eth­i­cal, ir­re­li­gious and un­fair to Sikh so­ci­ety.

The Jathedars have taken this de­ci­sion in their own wis­dom with­out much ex­pla­na­tion to Sikhs. Un­der the in­flu­ence of forces al­ways on the look­out to de­stroy the sep­a­rate iden­tity of the Sikh peo­ple, Akal Takht Jathedar Sahib and the SGPC lead­er­ship grossly tam­pered with the Pal Singh Pure­wal de­vel­oped Nanakshahi cal­en­dar in 2009, af­ter hav­ing adopted it fully in 2003, now with their ir­ra­tional de­ci­sions they have bam­boo­zled with the con­fu­sion of dates of his­tor­i­cal rel­e­vance to the Sikh peo­ple.

Cas­ti­gat­ing Jathedar Akal Takht for his Bikrami ap­proach to the Sikh cal­en­dar, Dal Khalsa has out­rightly re­jected the de­ci­sion, and has ap­pealed to Sikh San­gat to cel­e­brate the birth an­niver­sary of Guru Gob­ind Singh on 5 Jan­u­ary.

When the Akal Takht lead­er­ship changed the true na­ture of the Nanakshahi cal­en­dar to a nearly Bikrami one, Pal Singh Pure­wal had warned them about the pre­sent dilemma when two Sikh his­tor­i­cal dates, namely the Birth an­niver­sary of Guru Gob­ind Singh the mar­tyr­dom day of Sahibzadas would likely fall on same dates, but un­for­tu­nately no­body lis­tened to him and to those who protested the move of the Akali Takht and SGPC to change the Nanakshahi cal­en­dar.

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Pal Singh Pure­wal had then said, “They may tem­porar­ily re­solve by chang­ing the dates, but this will be a reg­u­lar phe­nom­e­non” Pure­wal was forth­right, “In its own best in­ter­ests, the Sikh na­tion has no choice but to ac­cept the orig­i­nal Nanakshahi cal­en­dar.”