CHANDIGARH, Punjab—The apex Sikh body Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhik Committee has announced financial aid for the Sikhs who were attacked by the Hindus of Badsui village on March 23. The family of deceased Sikh Shamsher Singh will be given a financial aid of Rupees 2,00,000/- while all the other injured Sikhs will be given financial aid worth 25,000/- each.
SGPC president Gobind Singh Longowal made this announcement while meeting the injured Sikhs at Rajendra Hospital in Patiala on March 25.
Strongly criticizing the attack, Longowal said that the attacks on minorities in India are rising day by day. He added that the Union government of India and the state governments need to adopt strong strategies to tackle such attacks.
It may be recalled here that the Hindu villagers of Badsui village (Kaithal) had attacked Gurdwara Sahib on March 23 in which an innocent Sikh Shamsher Singh had lost life and several others were injured. The assailants had even tried to attack the holy corpus of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji but the Sikh men present inside the Gurdwara premises didn’t let them succeed.
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Why were they attacked? For what reason?