Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (PSGPC) on Friday appointed Tara Singh as acting president of committee following demise of PSGPC chief Sham Singh.
“Tara Singh was elected by the executive committee members of PSGPC in a meeting held on Friday,” said Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) Chairman Farooq ul Saddiq.
Resident of Sindh, Tara Singh is also the senior vice president of PSGPC.
Farooq said that the acting president would continue to serve till Baisakhi festival following which another meeting would be held to appoint a permanent president of Sikh body to run its day to day functioning.
He said ETPB felt the need of a PSGPC head for making arrangements for Baisakhi festival when thousands of Sikhs from all over the world converge at various Gurdwara’s of Pakistan.
Beside Tara Singh, former PSGPC president Bishan Singh and its general secretary Gopal Singh Chawla were in the race for the post.
On March 27, Sham Singh had died in Combined Medical Hospital following a brief illness.
The ETPB chairman said that in memory of Sham Singh, ETPB had named a 90-room sarai known as Bannu block in Gurdwara Panja Sahib, Hasanabdal on the name of Sham Singh.
