Karnal, March 22 -- Members of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) and supporters of Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee's (HSGMC) co-opted member Baljit Singh Daduwal on Friday engaged in a verbal spar over control of the Miri Piri Institute of Medical Sciences and Research at Shahabad.

Daduwal, a former ad-hoc president along with some committee members, visited the institute on NH-44 in Kurukshetra and stated that control of the institute should be handed over to the HSGMC. He accused HSGMC president Jagdish Singh Jhinda of taking no initiative to control the institute and claimed that HSGMC, not the Amritsar-based SGPC, should run it.

Soon, SGPC leaders, including management members, also arrived and asked them...