Bibi Jagir Kaur is new SGPC president

After a gap of 15 years, former Punjab cabinet minister Bibi Jagir Kaur (66) made a comeback as chief of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC). She was elected after the voting in the SGPC House during the Sikh body’s annual meeting at Teja Singh Samundri Hall.

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The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (or SGPC) is an organization in India responsible for the management of gurdwaras, Sikh places of worship in three states of Punjab, Haryana, and Himachal Pradesh and union territory of Chandigarh.

SGPC also administers Darbar Sahib in Amritsar. The SGPC is governed by the chief minister of Punjab.

The SGPC manages the security, financial, facility maintenance and religious aspects of Gurdwaras as well as keeping archaeologically rare and sacred artifacts, including weapons, clothes, books and writings of the Sikh Gurus.

It was formed in 1920. The first and the only woman and also incumbent President of SGPC is Jagir Kaur.