Maharashtra Sikh Community Invites Amit Shah For 350th Shahidi Shatabdi Samagam

Mumbai: Maharashtra's Sikh community met Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, on Wednesday in New Delhi to invite him for the 𝟑𝟓𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐢 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐢 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐦 𝐨𝐟 their ninth guru, '𝐇𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐢 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐫𝐢 𝐆𝐮𝐫𝐮 𝐓𝐞𝐠𝐡 𝐁𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐫' later this year.

Malkit Singh Bal, convenor of the state-level organising committee, said that Shah 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 at the event. Singh, who is the executive chairman of the Maharashtra State Punjabi Sahitya Akademi, was accompanied by Jaspal Singh Sidhu, co-convenor of the samagam.

The samagam will be held in three places in the state, Nanded, Nagpur, and Mumbai. The year-long event will commemorate the martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur and his family in Delhi in 1675 CE following the support he extended to Kashmiri Pandits who were facing forcible conversion to Islam. A shrine in Delhi, the Shishganj Gurudwara, commemorates the sacrifice.

In Mumbai, the event will be held on December 21 and 22. "The aim of the commemoration is to take the story of Guru Gobind Singh's sacrifice to every home in the state. He became a martyr to save Hindus," added Singh.

Maharashtra's Sikh community, including the Sikligar, Banjara, Lubana, and Sindhi Hindus who believe in Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh faith, are taking part in the organisation of the event.