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AMRITSAR: Panthic leaders are livid over what they call Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leadership’s “self-imposed atonement, whose date and time was also decided by its leadership”. The five Sikh high priests would then decide the atonement to be pronounced upon the person. They should have performed sewa like humble Sikhs and not under media spotlight and tight security, the former jathedar added.“They (SAD leaders) cannot absolve themselves of the mistakes with self-imposed religious punishment of ‘sewa’. This is now sewa,” he added. Panth knows them very well and they wouldn’t make any electoral gain out of it,” he said.TOI also talked to a couple of devotees who were present in Golden Temple during the bhog ceremony..