India, May 23 -- After Balwant Singh Rajoana, a death row convict in former chief minister Beant Singh's assassination case, objected to the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee move to put up a portrait of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the Central Sikh Museum in the Golden Temple complex, the SGPC postponed its decision and said the matter would be reviewed.

"Manmohan Singh represented a political party (Congress) that was responsible for atrocities on Sikhs. He was the Prime Minister of a party behind the Sikh genocide (in 1984). His portrait has no place in a museum that represents the pride and sacrifices of the Sikh community," Rajoana wrote in his letter to the SGPC on Thursday.

After Rajoana's objection, SGPC secreta...