Renovation of Gurdwara Shaheed Bunga begins in Golden Temple, Amritsar

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, August 20

The renovation of Gurdwara Shaheed Bunga, a memorial of Shaheed Baba Deep Singh located in the Golden Temple was started today after the bhog (culmination) of Sri Akhand Path.

Earlier, Bhai Sukhjinder Singh, hazuri raagi of the shrine connected the gathering with gurbani kirtan. Ardas was offered by Bhai Sultan Singh and the holy Hukamnama was recited by additional head granthi of Sachkhand Sri Harmandar Sahib Giani Jagtar Singh Ludhiana.

SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur said, “There was a long-standing demand of the sangat for the renovation of the holy shrine of Shaheed Baba Deep Singh,” said Bibi Jagir Kaur. She said the family of Colonel (retired) Balbir Singh Sarhali would make a financial contribution to this service being rendered by the SGPC. She said Shaheed Baba Deep Singh had an important place in the history of Sikhs who sacrificed his life to stop the desecration of Golden Temple.

SGPC President Bibi Jagir Kaur welcomed the lifting of the ban on wearing kirpan (one of five Kakaars of Sikhs) by Sikh students in schools in New South Wales (NSW), Australia.

In the recent past, the NSW government in Australia had banned wearing of kirpan by Sikh children in government schools of the state, which was strongly opposed by the Sikh community.