Damdami Taksal launches ‘shaheedi gallery’ website

We prepared a list of 892 names of the martyrs killed during 1984 Sikh holocaust. Out of the total, we have managed to get pictures of 300 so far. Around 250 pictures have been put up and the remaining will be posted within the next two days. BABA HARNAM SINGH DHUMMA, Damdami Taksal head

AMRITSAR: Sikh seminary Damdami Taksal launched a website of ‘shaheedi gallery’, here on Saturday.

The gallery is being constructed in the basement of Operation Bluestar Memorial situated in the Golden Temple complex.

Damdami Taksal is supervising the kar sewa of the gallery which will display the portraits of Sikh militant leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale; president of All India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF) Amrik Singh; Major General Shabeg Singh (retd).the site was launched by Damdami Taksal head Baba Harnam Singh Dhumma.

Relics and history of the operation carried out by the Indian Army in the central Sikh shrine against the militants will also be exhibited.

The website will contain pictures of around 250 persons killed during the Operation Bluestar in 1984 and information about the gallery.

The site also contains information about Sikh gurus, heroes of Sikh struggles, history of Damdami Taksal, articles of ‘RSS versus Sikhs’.

Dhuma said, “We prepared a list of around 892 names of the martyrs, killed during 1984 Sikh holocaust. Out of the total, we have managed to get pictures of 300 till now.” “We have put up around 250 pictures and the remaining will be posted within next two days,” he said.

Pictures of other 592 martyrs are also being arranged, he said.

LIST HAS NAMES OF BABBAR KHALSA MEMBERS

The list also has the names of Sikh militant organisation, Babbbar Khalsa’s members. The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) had assigned the kar sewa to the taksal during the tenure of the then chief Kirpal Singh Badungar.

Earlier, during the time of memorial’s inauguration, the SGPC, which is ruled by the Shiromani Akali Dal and was in power in Punjab then, had expressed unease at a plaque and two slabs with Bhindranwale’s name installed at its entrance.few BJP leaders and Opposition party, Congress, had opposed it, terming the move as ‘anti-national’.

A few days later, on the instructions of the then SGPC chief Avtar Singh Makkar, a clock with Bhindranwale’s name was removed from the memorial.