Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has written a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah for getting the President's assent to sacrilege bills.
Mann in a fresh letter to Shah on May 24 said, “Now we have received a response from your ministry that the punishment proposed in the amendments appears to be excessive. In this context, I would like to bring to your kind notice that Guru Granth Sahib is considered a living guru by Sikhs and is accorded respect accordingly,”.
"It is extremely necessary to maintain communal harmony in Punjab and for this rigorous punishment is required to deter criminals trying to disturb communal harmony. So, I again request that the Presidential assent for the said Bills may kindly be given to the state government at the earliest,” stated Bhagwant Mann in a letter.