Ranjit Singh's life story was re-told to children to teach them
lessons of courage and good governance.
Indore: Sikh community could not offer tribute to Maharaja Ranjit
Singh popularly known as Sher-e-Punjab or Lion of Punjab, like every year. His
death anniversary was on Saturday. Like every year, the Sikhs commemorate his contribution
and pay tributes to him on the following Sunday of June 27.
Though the memorial event was organised as every year, he was
remembered in prayers and special ardas was organised to express thanks to the
great leader in various gurudwaras of the city.
His life story was
re-told to children to teach them lessons of courage and good governance.
“Every year, we offer tribute to the Maharaja with get-together, flower wreaths
and celebrations, but this year, since public gatherings were restricted, we
only offered prayers in Gurudwaras,” Devendra Singh Gandhi, coordinator of Imli
Sahib Gurudwara, said.
Imli Sahib Gurudwara,Indore,MP
Kirtan was
organised in his honour in gurudwaras. Impressed by the Maharaja’s life
stories, kids were particularly inspired and wished to be as courageous as him.
Maharaja Ranjit Singh
“He survived smallpox in infancy but lost sight in his left eye.
He fought his first battle alongside his father at age 10. After his father
died, he fought several wars to expel the Afghans in his teenage years and was
proclaimed as the ‘Maharaja of Punjab’ at age 21,” Simran Kaur, a teenager,
said.
She felt that such
real-life stories are needed to be re-told today, as we often get depressed
easily. “I can feel my blessings when I compare it to the life of Maharaja, who
bore so many pains in such a nascent age,” Narender Singh, a businessman, said.
“Maharaja is still
our inspiration and in times of covid-19, we need to learn from him,” Surender
Singh, president of LIG gurudwara committee, said. He added that Maharaja had
defeated Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln during the early 19th century.
“His policies were
based on respect for all communities, Hindu, Sikh and Muslim. We need to
remember and re-learn those policies,” Singh added.
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