AMRITSAR, March 3 -- Members of various Sikh organisations on Sunday held a gathering at Akal Takht to perform ardas (prayer) for the implementation of the December 2 hukamnama (decree) of the highest Sikh temporal seat and sought excommunication of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leaders for allegedly violating the seven-member panel directive.

Before performing ardas at the Takht, the leaders of various Sikh bodies, including Shiromani Akali Dal 1920, Alliance of Sikh Organizations, International Sikh Federation, Misal Sutlej, Darbar-e-Khalsa, Giani Dit Singh Sahit Sabha, held a demonstration outside the Golden Temple complex.

After the ardas, they handed over a memorandum to the Akal Takht jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh. In jathedar's ab...