Bandi Chhor Divas: Nagar kirtan from Gwalior reaches Faridabad
Our Correspondent
Tarn Taran, October 28
A nagar kirtan dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the ‘Bandi Chhor Divas’ started from Gurdwara Data Bandi Chhor, Gwalior (MP), on Wednesday and reached Faridabad (Haryana) on Thursday. The nagar kirtan is to reach Akal Takht, Amritsar, on November 3.
Baba Sewa Singh, head of the Kar Sewa sect, Khadoor Sahib, had arranged the nagar kirtan procession.
It was accorded a warm welcome by the local sangat on its way. It stayed at the Gurdwara Dukh Niwaran Sahib (Guru ka Taal), Agra, from where it moved ahead today morning. Baba Sewa Singh and Baba Lakha Singh, including local sangat, planted four saplings here to commemorate the event.
The procession would stay at Gurdwara Singh Sabha, Faridabad, tonight and will take a halt at the Gurdwara Majnu Ka Tilla, New Delhi, for one night. Guru Hargobind, the sixth Sikh Guru visited Amritsar after being released from the Gwalior Fort, along with 52 Hindu prisoners. They all were arrested by Mughal emperor Jahangir.
