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Harsimrat projection bid
outshines celebrations at Takht Sahib
WSN Network
 TALWANDI SABO:
Petty
considerations often mark a big day. The Badal clans efforts to
project Sukhbir Singh Badal’s wife Harsimrat Kaur Badal as the next
gift to the Sikh community and
Punjab
virtually overshadowed the Guru-ta Gaddi celebrations at Takht
Damdama Sahib.
Harsimrat’s act
of planting some saplings and launching her pet Nanhi Chhanv project
and the consolidated effort by the House of Sukhbir and the pen of
spin masters like Harcharan Bains ensured that Guruta Gaddi
celebrations turned out to be aHarsimrat projection event.
But it had
little impact on the outpouring of the religiosity as thousands of
devotees gathered to pay obeisance at Takht Damdama Sahib on October
19 and October 20 to mark the 300 years of Guru’ta Gaddi Diwas.
The October 19
Women Conference was reduced to a Harsimrat hossana singing event
with SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar in attendance and all efforts
of Bathinda MP Paramjit Kaur Gulshan, who has been working hard to
make the ‘Istri Sammelan’ a success, turned out to be part of a
coordinated plan to underline the importance of the power couple. On
the face of it, it was a drive to create awareness about female
foeticide. The Punjab government had received a grant of Rs 100
crore from the Union Government for development works in Talwandi
Sabo ahead of the celebrations.
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October 2008
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