Bathinda, Sept. 8, 2013 -

Police forcibly removed a canopy installed to host a religious congregation of Sikh leader Baljit Singh Daduwal in Teona Pujarian village in Bathinda on Friday night.

Daduwal has alleged that the move was an attempt by the SAD-BJP government to spread communal disharmony in the state to polarise voters ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.

Deputy commissioner KK Yadav had given orders not to allow the programme by Daduwal on the grounds that it could lead to tensions between Dera Sacha Sauda followers and the Sikhs.

"The Sikhs and the Dera followers want to live peacefully, but it is the ruling SADBJP alliance that is communalising the relationship. In Rajasthan, Dera followers attended by programme without any problem, only recently" alleged Daduwal.

He claimed that he had an issue with the Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and not the followers.

Source:Calgary Indians Correspondent.