India, July 26 -- A major controversy has erupted over alleged violation of Sikh 'maryada' (religious code of conduct) after a song-and-dance video went viral from a Punjab government event held to commemorate the martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur.

Punjab education minister Harjot Singh Bains on Saturday issued an apology and "humbly submitted" himself for a hearing scheduled by the Akal Takht, the supreme temporal body of the Sikhs, for August 1.

His apology post on X came almost immediately after the temporal authority summoned him and the director of the state language department, Jaswant Singh Zafar, to appear before five Singh Sahiban (Sikh clergy) on August 1 at the Akal Takht.

Bir Singh, the singer who performed at the on July 24 e...