A BJP delegation led by means of birthday celebration’s common secretary Dushyant Goutham, state president Ashwini Sharma and different Punjab leaders will meet High Minister Narendra Modi at round midday on Sunday to post a memorandum requesting the reopening of the Kartarpur Sahib hall, which has been close since March final yr because of Covid-related restrictions.
The assembly comes days after SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur and previous union minister and Akali Dal chief Harsimrat Kaur Badal wrote to the high minister hard the similar. Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu has additionally pressed for the same call for.
The Pakistan overseas place of job says they have got no longer heard from India concerning the call for to reopen the hall now that Covid-19 circumstances are at the decline.
November 19 marks the delivery anniversary of Sikh guru Guru Nanak and the second one anniversary of the hole of the Kartarpur Sahib hall, which used to be inaugurated by means of Pakistan’s High Minister Imran Khan at the eve of the 550th delivery anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev on November 9, 2019.
As consistent with the Pakistan-India bilateral settlement, 3,000 Indian Sikh pilgrims will also be allowed access into Pakistan for Gurpurab celebrations.
In the meantime, the Indian executive is permitting 1,500 pilgrims to commute to pay obeisance at non secular shrines in Pakistan in the course of the Attari-Wagah Built-in Take a look at Publish between November 17 and 26, MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi stated final week. The overseas ministry additionally identified to events in June this yr when Pakistan disallowed Sikh ‘jathas’ commute to Pakistan for quite a lot of gurdwara visits.
The ones travelling this time might be allowed to visit Nankana Sahib as additionally gurdwaras in Lahore, Hassan Abdal, Kartarpur and Farooqabad.
Village Kartarpur is positioned on the west financial institution of river Ravi the place Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji spent final 18 years of his existence. Gurdwara Sri Kartarpur Sahib falls in district Narowal of Pakistan, about 4.5 ok.m. from the world border close to the historical the city of Dera Baba Nanak, District Gurdaspur, Punjab. The Indian a part of Dera Baba Nanak – Sri Kartarpur Sahib Hall comes to a 4.1 km-long four-lane freeway from Dera Baba Nanak to world border and a state-of-the-art Passenger Terminal Development (PTB) on the world border.
