Amritsar: Dal Khalsa has taken serious note of recent developments that point to a disturbing and long-standing nexus between the Union Government, sections of the judiciary, and schismatic establishments that have historically functioned to dilute and undermine the core Sikh doctrine of Shabad Guru.

Dal Khalsa leaders Harpal Singh Cheema and Kanwar Pal Singh expresses deep concern over the optics and timing surrounding the visit of the head of Radha Soami Satsang Beas Gurinder Singh Dhillon to a high-profile inmate Bikramjit Singh Majithia in jail, followed shortly thereafter by judicial relief to him from the Supreme Court of India. Taken together, these events raise troubling questions about institutional independence, moral authority, and the growing influence of extra-constitutional religious power centres.

Dal Khalsa emphasizes that this concern must be seen in the broader political context. The repeated outreach by the Prime Minister and the ruling establishment to sectarian deras — including the Prime Minister’s visit to Dera Ballan — reflects a calculated political strategy to mobilize vote-bank through religious intermediaries. Simultaneously, the patronage extended to deras such as Beas has emboldened schismatic forces whose theology directly challenges the Sikh principle of the Guru Granth Sahib as the sole and eternal Guru.

“This is not an isolated or accidental development,” a Dal Khalsa spokesperson Kanwar Pal Singh stated. “Since the era of Indira Gandhi in the 1970s, the Indian state has consciously nurtured Deravaad and Gurudom as instruments to fragment Sikh unity, weaken Sikh institutions, and undermine Gurmat philosophy. That policy, regrettably, continues in full measure today.”

Dal Khalsa leaders categorically clarify that their organisation harbours no personal animosity toward any Akali leader and were not pronouncing any judgment on Majithia’s guilt or innocence.

We are alarmed at the public statements made by political functionaries, like the one made by Sunil Jakhar, endorsing the utterances of the Dera head as prophetic or divinely sanctioned.

Dal Khalsa leaders asserted that they will continue to counter all attempts by the state or its collaborators to weaken Sikh fundamentals under the guise of politics, expediency, or social engineering.