Addressing a party workers’ meeting near here, he said, “Khalsa University is proposed to be set up on a land belonging to the historic Khalsa College which is a part of Sikh heritage. The land was donated by Kot Khalsa village for a specific purpose.”
“However, the management was subsequently usurped by the Majithia family,” he alleged in a refernce to state Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia.
Channi claimed that Khalsa University too would be managed by a separate trust the members of which are from the Badal and Majithia families and opposed the setting up of a private institution on a land donated by the people for a public cause, calling it “highly objectionable”.
“This amounts to land-grab by the Badal and Majithia families,” he alleged, saying Congress would have no objection if the university was set up elsewhere but not on the Khalsa College land.
PTI