No alteration done at Jallianwala Bagh: Guv
The renovation team has done a wonderful and archaeologically right job, he wrote in visitor’s book
AMRITSAR: A day after assuming charge as Punjab governor and administrator of Chandigarh, Banwarilal Purohit on Wednesday visited Jallianwala Bagh amid controversy over its restoration/renovation. He paid his tribute to those killed in the massacre of April 13, 1919.
“I have paid my homage to martyrs. The complete renovation team has done a wonderful and archaeologically right job. No changes have been made to the archaeological site of this place,” the governor wrote in the visitor’s book.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had, virtually inaugurated the historic site on August 28. The renovation had led to a row with historians, among others, criticising the central government for ‘erasing history’ of the Bagh.
On Tuesday, Rahul Gandhi slammed the makeover of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre site as ‘belittling of the martyrdom’. However, Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh had said, “I don’t know what has been removed. Whatever I saw that night (at the inauguration event), it looked very nice to me.”
The governor also visited the Golden Temple and the Durgiana Temple in Amritsar, where the managements of both the sites honoured him. He, however, refrained from talking to the media.
Rahul playing cheap politics: Chugh
CHANDIGARH : BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of “trying to play cheap politics in the name of martyrs” on the Jallianwala Bagh issue. Complimenting the PM for “infusing new life” in the Bagh after for carrying out renovation work worth Rs 20 crore, Chugh slammed Rahul for running down the PM’s efforts to score political points.