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Written by Vibhor Mohan, Tribune News Service, Amritsar
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Friday, 07 September 2007 |
 A group of locals from Pakistan plan to pay tributes to the martyrs of our freedom struggle on the occasion of Bhagat Singh’s birth anniversary on September 27. There Indian counterparts are mulling the same.
The Bhagat Singh Birth Anniversary Committee, which will organise a host of programmes in collaboration with the district administration from September 8 to 27, has made an appeal to city residents to illuminate their houses on the eve of the martyr’s birthday.
Talwinder Singh, vice-president, Kendriya Punjabi Lekhak Sangh, said the committee would put up posters across the city asking people to illuminate houses and display fireworks so that the anniversary of Bhagat Singh might be a memorable one. “Last month, a 45-member delegation from India crossed over to Pakistan to take part in the programmes organised at the tomb of Baba Bulle Shah in Kasur. An appeal was made there to the people of Pakistan to pay tributes to Bhagat Singh on his birth anniversary,” he said.
The delegation had been invited by Chaudhary Manzoor Ahmed, member of the National Assembly from Kasur, who also heads the Bulle Shah International Forum.
At the seminar organised on Bulle Shah, the Indian delegates proposed three resolutions, which were passed by the members. These included illuminating homes on Bhagat Singh’s anniversary, putting up of statues of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev at the spot where they were hanged and naming DAV College, Lahore, (now Islamia College) where Bhagat Singh studied, after him. “People of Amritsar and Lahore share a bond of respect and attachment with Bhagat Singh and there cannot be a better way of remembering him,” Talwinder said.
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