After this Santa and fellow Nihangs regularly attended Congress rallies and blessed Indira Gandhi before her elections.

[4] In the aftermath of Operation Blue Star he attended a Congress rally organised by Indira Gandhi.

[6] In 2001, Santa Singh along with 20 chiefs of Nihang sects, refused to accept the ban on consumption of bhang by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee.

[10] This caused controversy with Damdami Taksal, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and many members of the wider Sikh community.

[11][12] The Akal Takht, was torn down two years later under the orders of Baba Thakur Singh, the leader of the Damdami Taksal, at the 1986 Sarbat Khalsa.

Why didn't they act when Bhindranwale's men were going about defecating and drying underwear on the balconies of the Akal Takht?

"[4] In 2012, SGPC reversed its initial decision to install Santa Singh portrait in the Central Sikh Museum due to backlash from certain fractions of the community.