Claim
During this debate, Anurag Dhanda said that the Akal Takht is lying.
“क्या बोला गया है इस डिबेट के अंदर अनुराग अनुराग ढांडा अकाल तक झूठ बोल रहा है ये बोला गया है इस डिबेट में अकाल तक झूठ बोल रहा है प्रभु अकाल तक झूठ बोल रहा है ये बोला गया है राम के घर में”▶ Watch source segment
Rationale
The claim concerns a statement allegedly made inside a specific TV debate. No fact-checker (AltNews, BOOM, Factly, Newschecker, PIB) or news report corroborates that Anurag Dhanda called the Akal Takht a liar on Aar Paar on 2 July 2026, and no transcript of the segment is publicly available. The original quote is a garbled, self-referential characterization by the anchor rather than an independently sourced statement. Given that a political leader branding the highest Sikh temporal authority a liar amid the anti-sacrilege-law row would be highly newsworthy — yet is absent from all coverage, where AAP's stance is documented as deferential — the specific in-debate claim can be neither confirmed nor refuted from available sources.
Evidence
- https://www.tribuneindia.com/live-blog/amritsar/akal-takht-proceedings-live-punjab-sikh-mlas-to-present-their-stand-on-anti-sacrilege-law-shortly/ Confirms the real backdrop: on 29 June 2026 the Akal Takht summoned Punjab's Sikh MLAs over the Jagat Jot Guru Granth Sahib Satkar (Amendment) Act, listed objections, and gave a one-month ultimatum — the topic the 2 July Aar Paar debate was built around. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://www.tv9hindi.com/india/aap-akal-takht-guru-granth-sacrilege-law-amendments-punjab-3835199.html Shows AAP's documented public posture toward the Akal Takht was deferential — it wrote to the Takht and defended amending the law, not accusing the institution of lying; makes a spokesperson calling the Takht a liar out of character and, if real, highly newsworthy. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://www.outlookindia.com/national/outlook-explains-the-11-problems-akal-takht-found-in-punjabs-anti-sacrilege-law Background on the Akal Takht's objections to the law; no reporting anywhere records AAP media in-charge Anurag Dhanda stating the Akal Takht is 'lying.' ✓ reachable · archived