New Delhi, April 7 -- Senior Advocate and BJP leader HS Phoolka on Tuesday strongly criticised the Punjab government for planning to amend the 2008 Jagat Jyot Shri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Act without consulting the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), calling the move "a massive attack on the Sikh religion" and urging Sikhs to oppose it.

Speaking to the ANI, Phoolka said that a special session of the Punjab Assembly has been called for April 13, partly to increase punishments under the sacrilege law and partly to amend the 2008 Act. While he supported the increase in punishment for sacrilege, ranging from a minimum of 10 years to life imprisonment, he expressed deep concern over the amendments to the SGPC Act.

He said, "As f...