SGPC want US-admin to act against Cafe Press for Deingrating Sikh Gurus, Darbar Sahib

SGPC Presidnet Avtar Singh Makkar [File Photo]

Amritsar, Punjab (April 08, 2014): The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has issued a stern warning to Cafe Press, a United States of America (USA)-based designer company, which has etched sketches of the Darbar Sahib (also called by Westerners as the Golden Temple Amritsar) and of the Sikh gurus on some of its products including under garments.

In a released issued from SGPC’s Amritsar based head office, SGPC President Avtar Singh Makkar has called upon the US-administration to take legal action against the company as it had hurt Sikh sentiments worldwide.

Darbar Sahib (Amritsar)

“This insulting act of the company cannot be forgiven or forgotten, he added.

Sketches of the Darbar Sahib and of the Sikh Guru Sahibs are also found on other products, including T-shirts and even slippers being manufactured by the company. Besides on some of these products, Sikh religious symbols like the ‘khanda’ are also displayed”.

“The US-government should withdraw and ban all products being manufactured by this company”, stated Avtar Singh Makkar while calling upon Sikhs and members of other communities to boycott all products of this company.

SGPC chief said that the company seemed to be deliberately manufacturing garments with sketches of the Sikh Gurus, of their religious symbols and or the Darbar Sahib. He said that the SGPC would also take legal remedies to get these products banned.