Cigarette packaging used for distributing prasad at Kartarpur Gurudwara

An enormous controversy has emerged because it has been revealed that the Kartarpur Gurdwara Darbar Sahib administration committee has used cigarette packaging as wrappers to pack and distribute Kadah Prasad to devotees visiting the shrine situated within the Punjab province of Pakistan. This got here to the fore when one of many devotees opened the Prasad wrapper, solely to discover a label of ‘Gold Street International’ model of cigarette printed on the within.
Social media has been rife with photos of the pinni prasad packet, which, apparently, carries the {photograph} of Gurdwara Janam Asthan, Nankana Sahib, with ‘Blessings of Guru Nanak Dev Ji’, and likewise a picture of Gurdwara Jyoti Jyot Asthan, Sri Guru Nanak Dev, Kartarpur Sahib on the skin. Whereas, on the within, there was a cigarette commercial by Pakistan’s Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB), the father or mother physique of the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (PSGPC).
Photos of cigarettes are used within the wrapping paper for distributing Prasad to devotees at Kartarpur & Nankana Sahib. This is completely unacceptable & an insult to our spiritual values. This must be instantly stopped. @parbhandak look into the matter @rsrobin1 @vikramsahney pic.twitter.com/0rbEknELsF— The Turban Talk (@turban_talk) December 17, 2021
Since the consumption of Cigarettes and Tobacco is taken into account a cardinal offence in Sikhism, the members of the Sikh neighborhood have been outraged by means of cigarette packaging as wrappers to pack the prasad in Kartarpur and Nankana Sahib in Pakistan.
The President of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee and BJP chief Manjinder Singh Sirsa has taken to Twitter to sentence the incident calling it a conspiracy to harm the religion 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,” Tweeted Sirsa.
Sikh sentiments harm repetitively in PakThis time Sangat given Kadah Prashad in Cigarette wrapper pages at Gurdwara Sri Kartarpur Sahib. This smacks of a conspiracy to harm our religion & harass minority Sikhs in Pak. Earlier, they allowed fashions to shoot at Gurdwara Sahib premises pic.twitter.com/P1G1RXqs9Q— Manjinder Singh Sirsa (@mssirsa) December 17, 2021
In his subsequent Tweet, the BJP chief shared the image of the wrapper and urged Pakistan PM Imran Khan to take strict motion towards the Gurdwara managing authority.
We won’t settle for such hurtful actions and demand from @ImranKhanPTI Ji strict motion towards Gurdwara managing authoritySuch actions embarrass Sikhs all internationally esp when Sikhism is a lot towards tobacco@ANi @republic @ZeeNews @TimesNow @thetribunechd @punjabkesari https://t.co/R4vhcxOOC0 pic.twitter.com/lu2WoS8ko0— Manjinder Singh Sirsa (@mssirsa) December 17, 2021
Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (PSGPC), then again, stated in its defence, that an enquiry was carried out after the incident at Kartarpur gurdwara was dropped at their discover three days in the past by which it was revealed that this was the work of some anti-social components who most likely by no means wished the Kartarpur hall to be opened, stated PSGPC chief Ameer Singh.
“We never used such packaging to distribute the prasad at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib. We have carried out an enquiry into the incident and based on that, we can say that this is the doing of some anti-social elements who don’t want Kartarpur Corridor to start,” PSGPC chief Ameer Singh was quoted by the Hindi day by day, Livehindustan, as saying.
Pakistani Model’s ‘bare head’ photos at Kartarpur Sahib Gurudwara triggers controversy
It could also be famous that solely final month, one other controversy had erupted after a Pakistani mannequin had taken photos, along with her ‘bare-head’, on the premises of the shrine. The proprietor of a web based clothes retailer named Mannat in Pakistan had posted a number of photos of the mannequin’s photoshoot on the social media account as an commercial for the clothes model. 
It is notable right here that each women and men are required to cowl their heads whereas visiting a Gurudwara.
The Sikh Community had criticized the commercial and stated that the photographs of the Pakistani mannequin posing ‘bare head’ with again in direction of the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib have harm the feelings of the spiritual neighborhood.
President of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee Manjinder Singh Sirsa had then too demanded strict motion towards those that misbehaved in spiritual locations of the minorities in Pakistan. He said that the mannequin posing with out protecting her head contained in the Gurudwara premises is akin to ‘beadbi’ or sacrilege.
A member of the group that posted the photographs of the Pakistani mannequin has issued a video message after the controversy and tendered an apology after the backlash. The mannequin and the clothes model had additionally tendered an apology.