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Pak Jatha for Gurta Gaddi manages to leave for Nanded
WSN Bureau 

AMRITSAR: After struggling for more than a day in Amritsar, a Jatha of Sikhs under the leadership of Pakistan Gurdwara Parbandhak Commitee acting president Bishan Singh and five other executive members, finally managed to board a special train to go to Nanded and participate in the Gurta Gaddi celebrations. Due to an administrative fiasco by the SGPC and railway authorities, there was delay in arranging the special train. 

Some of the Jatha members were first time visitors to India and were accorded a warm welcome by the Sikhs from Amritsar at the Attari border where they arrived in the traditional Nagar Kirtan style. Members of the SGPC, Punjab Cabinet Minister Gulzar Singh Ranikey, senior officers and men of the Border Security Force playing Gurbani with the military band and the Punjab police were also there to greet the Jatha.

“We are very happy and hope that this first Jatha of its kind will be the harbinger of many more to come in future”, said Bishan Singh.

29 October 2008
 

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