Purewal & Dal Khalsa Slam The Changes & Hindu-ization Of The Sikh Calendar

*RSS & Sikh Sellouts/Badal Dal/Sant Samajh behind move to force in changes

*Destruction of the seperate Sikh Identity.

*Destruction of the scientific Sikh Solar Calendar The Nanakshahi - Approved by the Khalsa Panth in March 2003

*All this is done due to the upcomming votes in which the Badal/RSS have an agreement with the Sant Samajh

Dal Khalsa UK openly declares that these charcters behind the changes are traitors and sell outs bent on having control over the Sikh Nation,and vested intrests within them want Sikhism to be dissolved in to the Hindu fold of Hindutva Hindi,Hindu,Hindustan.The RSS Leader went on record to say he will not let the Nanakshahi Calendar survive and that Sikhs should celebrate or mark occasions using the useless unscientific Hindu method - in other words we have to go TO A PANDIT WHO WILL TELL US WHEN TO CELEBRATE AND MARK GURPURABS.

Sri Akal Takht Sahib needs to be liberated from those sellout Jathedars and leaders like Parkash Chand Badal who fall to the feet of their Hindutva Fascist Masters and their regimes in Delhi.

AMRITSAR: Pal Singh Purewal- the architect of the Nanakshahi calendar Thursday openly took the SGPC and Akali leadership to task for mixing the Nanakshahi calendar with Bikrami and resolved not to rest in peace till the arbitrary decision of the SGPC to alter the calendar was not revoked.

Notably, the Nanakshahi Calendar was developed by a Canadian Sikh, Pal Singh Purewal, a retired computer engineer. He started work on the calendar way back in 1960s.

In a communiqué addressed to the Akal Takht jathedar he urged him to revert to the original calendar adopted on 28 March 2003 by suspending the so-called amendments as the move had widened the gulfs within the Sikh community.

In scathing observations made during press meet at Dal Khalsa head office in Amritsar, he said the Nanakshahi Calendar was an identity marker for the Sikh community and the changes have killed the spirit of the almanac.

Accompanied by Manjit Singh Calcutta and Kanwar Pal Singh, Purewal said these so-called changes in the Nanakshahi Calendar have diluted the uniqueness of the Sikh almanac. “All communities and faiths have their own calendar as a mark of their distinct cultural identity”, said he.

He said after the so-called changes the mix-up calendar was no longer the Nanakshahi calendar. Ironically, it's Nanakshahi only in name and that's meant to hoodwink the Sikhs.

Dal Khalsa leader Kanwarpal Singh rejected the so-called amendments and supported the original version as it emphasized separate identity of Sikhs from Hindus. He said the changes in the calendar were made to appease Sant Samaj. To a question, he revealed that there’s been a

electoral deal between Sant Samaj and Badal Dal for the ensuing SGPC elections.

Coming down heavily on the SGPC head Avtar Singh Makkar, veteran Akali leader Manjit Singh Calcutta said the height of his shamelessness was demonstrated in his conduct as he toed the dictates of his political bosses and tampered with the calendar- the symbol of Sikh separate

identity.

Purewal flays changes in Nanakshahi calendar
Says it is due to vote-bank politics
Perneet Singh/TNS

Amritsar, February 17
Challenging those who are objecting to the original Nanakshahi calendar to show their credentials, Pal Singh Purewal, the calendar’s architect, today flayed the amendments made to it, saying the changes made as mere amendments will be a misnomer as the entire base of the calendar has been changed.

Showing copies of a letter that he has written to Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh in this regard here today, Purewal said, “We had fixed the dates of all 12 sangrands and all major gurpurbs except for three in our calendar. But now they have reverted to Bikrami calendar for observing all sangrands and four gurpurbs — Gurta Gaddi Diwas of Guru Granth Sahib, the Martyrdom Day of Guru Arjun Dev and birth and death anniversaries of Guru Gobind Singh. As a result of this, the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh will be celebrated twice in 2011, 2014, 2017, 2022 and 2025 while it will not fall in 2012, 2015, 2018 and 2023.”

In 2014 and 2025, the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh, falling in December for the second time in these years, will coincide with the martyrdom day of his younger sahibzadas as per the amended calendar, he added.

Purewal said, “I have written this letter to the Jathedar based on technical facts and not opinions. I challenge the people objecting to the original calendar to show their credentials. They have no right to criticise the calendar.” He said he had decades of experience in the field and had to his credit 500-year calendar based on solar charts and 1,500-year Hijri Calendar. He said the Sikh Panth never witnessed as much unanimity and unity as it did during the implementation of the original calendar in 2003. “If the amended calendar has no shortcomings, why the Akal Takht Jathedar, during his foreign tours, needs to appeal every gurdwara to follow it,” he wondered.

According to Purewal, 80 per cent of the gurdwaras abroad are following the original calendar. He said the problems, which were sorted out in the original calendar, were back now and today’s version was a mixture of both the Nanakshahi and Bikrami Calendars. He blamed “vote-bank politics” for the changes made in the calendar. “It is all politics and no science in the move,” he added. He said all, except for some fringe groups, accepted the 2003 version of the calendar and the Panth should revert to it.

Former SGPC secretary Manjeet Singh Calcutta and Dal Khalsa secretary-general Kanwarpal Singh Bittu, who were also present, alleged that the RSS was behind these amendments.

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110218/main7.htm

http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/purewal-flays-sad-sgpc-arbitrary-changes-nanakshahi-calender/28707