Set up university in Guru Tegh Bahadur's name, demand MPs

New Delhi, December 8

Punjab MPs today raised a demand in the Lok Sabha to set up a university in the national capital to honour the memory of Guru Tegh Bahadur. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Akali Dal member Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Congress members Ravneet Singh Bittu and Jasbir Singh Gill and BJP member SS Ahluwalia recalled the sacrifice of the Sikh guru.

Ludhiana MP Bittu demanded that a national university be set up in Delhi to honour Guru Tegh Bahadur’s sacrifices. Similar demands were made by Harsimrat Kaur Badal. She also asked for keeping silence to pay tribute to Guru Tegh Bahadur, who was executed by the Mughals for his refusal to convert to Islam.

Gill, a Congress member from Khadoor Sahib, urged the government to set up Guru Tegh Bahadur Handicrafts Institute at Sathiala in Amritsar district. PM Narendra Modi also paid tributes to Guru Tegh Bahadur on his martyrdom day. — TNS