Chandigarh: With political parties criticising his party for allegedly hurting religious sentiments of Sikhs, Arvind Kejriwal has decided to visit Golden Temple on July 18 to perform ‘sewa’ (volunteer service).
“Like a humble ‘sewak’ (volunteer) and a true ‘aam aadmi’ (common man), (Arvind) Kejriwalji will perform ‘sewa’ at Sri Harmandar Sahib, Amritsar on 18th July, 2016,” Aam Aadmi Party member and Senior Supreme Court lawyer HS Phoolka said in a statement issued here on Friday.
AAP, which has been eyeing to wrest power in Punjab from the SAD-BJP combine after the 2017 Assembly polls, has been under fire from political opponents for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of Sikhs.
The party has been facing the ire for using the image of Golden Temple on the cover of its youth poll manifesto with its election symbol ‘broom’ superimposed on it. Political opponents, including Congress and SAD-BJP, have been hitting out at AAP leader Ashish Khetan for allegedly comparing the manifesto with Guru Granth Sahib and other religious books.
