CHANDIGARH, Punjab—Chief Minister of Punjab, Parkash Badal has promised the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee that he would provide aid in celebrating the 300th birth anniversary of Baba Banda Singh Bahadur. The CM made this promise in a meeting with the President of DSGMC, S. Manjit Singh GK.
Badal said that the Punjab government has already promised to bear the expenditure to install a monument of Baba Banda Singh Bahadur in Delhi. ‘Similarly, the Punjab government will not hesitate in bearing the costs of celebrate the 300th birth anniversary of Baba Banda Singh Bahadur’, he added. Citing the role of Baba Banda Singh Bahadur in establishing a Sikh empire, S. Badal also promised that the Punjab government will dedicate all its resources to make the celebration successful.
Badal also announced to make special arrangements for organizing a Nagar Kirtan from Gurdaspur Nangal to Takht Sri Hazoor Sahib.
Cabinet Minister S. Sohan Singh Thandal, Vice Chancellor of Punjabi University Dr. Jaspal Singh, Former Minister Jathedar Sewa Singh Sekhwan, President of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhik Committee Jathedar Avtar Singh Makkar and Chief Secretary Sri K.J.S Cheema were also present on this occasion.
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Spend the money on building a monument to the Sikh victims of Delhi 1984 and providing education and welfare for their families not some statue which is nothing more than a brazen sop / bribe to the Sikh masses to try and convince them of the Badals so-called ‘Sikh’ credentials. Banda Singh Bahadur like Scotland’s William Wallace was put to the death for refusing to give up his Sikh identity and fighting for Sikh rights – don’t think our Braveheart would appreciate a statue being put up by a man who believes in neither Sikh identity (refused to address the issue of discrimination against Sikhs in France when the French President came a begging in Chandigarh) nor Sikh rights (allows Punjab’s Police Officers to go unpunished after shooting dead of Sikhs protesting sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib).