AMRITSAR: The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, a Sikh organization engaged in looking after Sikh shrines, has decided not to observe India’s national holidays January 26, the Republic Day and August 15, the Independence Day as its own holidays. The S.G.P.C., instead, will observe June 6 every year as the Ghallughara Day (the great massacre day) in memory of these killed in India’s Operation against Sikhs in 1984,
The belated decision was announced by S.G.P.C, secretary, H.S. Khalsa, here this week. The Sikh militants had been pleading for a boycott of Indian national days in Punjab for a long time but their appeals went unheeded all these years.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 2, 1992
