Over 450 Indian Sikhs had been current for the ceremony.
Lahore:
The restored statue of the primary ruler of the Sikh Empire, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, which was earlier broken by non secular extremists, was unveiled at Kartarpur Sahib on Wednesday within the presence of over 450 visiting Indian Sikhs.
Members of the Sikh neighborhood from Pakistan and India posed for an image in entrance of the statue of the emperor.
Punjab’s first Sikh minister (for minorities) and president of the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (PSGPC) Ramesh Singh Arora unveiled the statue. Kartarpur Sahib is also called Gurdwara Darbar Sahib and is located about 150 km northeast of Lahore, near the Indian border.
“We have now put in Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s statue at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, Kartarpur Sahib, as we speak within the presence of native and Indian Sikhs,” Mr Arora advised PTI.
The 44-year-old Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief mentioned that the restored statue is positioned at Kartarpur Sahib primarily in order that Indian Sikhs visiting right here throughout the border utilizing the hall may additionally see it.
“At Kartarpur, higher safety may even be ensured for the statue of the Sikh chief that was vandalised earlier at Lahore Fort,” he mentioned.
The 455 Sikhs who arrived right here from India final week to participate in occasions in reference to Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s dying anniversary attended the inauguration of the statue. They may keep for a day in Kartarpur.
The nine-foot-tall bronze statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh was first put in on the Lahore Fort close to his ‘samadhi’ in 2019. It was vandalised twice by members of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).
The statue of the good Sikh ruler of Punjab was a present to the folks of the province from a physique in the UK.
It’s learnt that the statue, which depicts the Maharaja on horseback took eight months to finish and was sponsored by a United Kingdom-based historian and Sikh Khalsa (SK) Basis head, Bobby Singh Bansal. The burden of the statue is alleged to be between 250 and 330 kg.
Maharaja Ranjit Singh was the founding father of the Sikh Empire, which dominated the northwest Indian subcontinent within the early half of the nineteenth century.
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