Jalandhar: A day after reports that some US based Sikhs urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Houston to change the name of Indira Gandhi international airport, Delhi to Guru Nanak Dev international airport, Dal Khalsa has warned the “Sikhs from the RSS and BJP camp” against politicizing 550th anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak.

They do not want the founder of the Sikh faith to be reduced to the level of Indira Gandhi.

In a statement issued on Monday, the Sikh group asserted that the demand made by some Sikhs to rename Indira Gandhi international airport in Delhi after the name of Guru Nanak Dev amounted to reducing him to the level of a Prime Minister that was highly reprehensible.

Party spokesman Kanwar Pal Singh slammed such Sikhs for stooping to a new low and dragging the name of founder of Sikhism for vested political interests. “It’s the height of sycophancy,” he remarked.

Referring to reports, that certain Sikhs met PM Modi to thank him for scrapping the ‘Blacklist of Sikhs’, he said that in the group there wasn’t a single known face who represented the Sikh community at political or religious level. “Has anyone whose name was deleted from blacklist come to thank the PM,” he questioned.

He drew parallels of the meeting of this group of Sikhs with PM Modi to the photo released to the media in which national security advisor Ajit Doval was shown having a meal with some unknown Muslims in Kashmir after India scrapped article 370.

