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Punjab forgets Giani Ditt Singh's day
WSN Network

FATEHGARH SAHIB: Giani Ditt Singh is one of the legendary Sikh leaders when it comes to scholarship but even as political parties in Punjab vied with each other to prove themselves real inheritors of great traditions, not one remembered the birth anniversary of the man who defeated Sadhu Dayanand and made a major contribution to theological debates.

Neither the state government nor SGPC organised any function to mark the day at Kalaur village in the district, where the Sikh scholar was born on April 21, 1853. Even candidates who are contesting election from Fatehgarh Sahib Geserve) constituency did not pay a visit to the village.

The villagers, however, remembered Giani Ditt Singh by organising afunction at the village gurdwara.

Giani ji was a founder member of Singh Sabha, Lahore and made it a great movement through his speeches and writings. As an educationist, he not only helped setting up Khalsa College, Amritsar, but also wrote textbooks. He authored around 50 books and brought out the Khalsa Akhbar. Giani Ditt Singh died at Lahore on September 6, 1901.

22 April 2009
 

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