Corruption was unknown in the state during his administration. He maintained a very high level of efficiency by getting the residents of state educated and giving practical training. All local people were preferred for jobs and no official was imported from outside in his time.
The party is keeping him as the 'sardar', the head. His concession speech felt more like triumph. He started out beaming and bobbing to music leading the crowd the wave with their arms in the air.
We brush taboo subjects under the carpet and do not like airing them
The temporal power was with the Guru-Sangat or Guru-Panth empowered to interpret the Guru-Bani and to direct the affairs of the Khalsa Panth