Amritsar, October 6 – The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) delegation, which went to Pakistan to discuss preparations of 100-year centenary congregations of Shaheedi Saka (martyrdom massacre) Sri Panja Sahib, today visited Gurdwara Sri Panja Sahib at Hasan Abdal and held discussions with local officials. The delegation members also visited the venue for the Gurbani Kirtan samagam (event) to be held at Hasan Abdal’s railway station, where the tragic massacre of Panja Sahib took place in October 1922.

Notably, along with the main congregation Gurdwara Sri Panja Sahib as scheduled on October 30, 2022, there is also a plan to hold a one-hour Kirtan Darbar at the railway station of Hasan Abdal, to pay tributes to the martyrs, said in a release issued here today.

The SGPC delegation including General Secretary Jathedar Karnail Singh Panjoli, former senior vice-president Bhai Rajinder Singh Mehta along with others officials  interacted with the local organisers about the arrangements of the congregation and motivated them to make Sikh Sangat of nearby areas aware about the centenary. 

Giving information, SGPC General Secretary and delegation member Jathedar Karnail Singh Panjoli said that venue for the Kirtan Darbar to be held at Hasan Abdal railway station was visited along with Bhai Ranjit Singh and Bhai Kulbir Singh, the granthis of Gurdwara Sri Panja Sahib, local Sikh leader Bhai Santokh Singh and other prominent Sikhs, so that the event can be conducted effectively. 

Meanwhile, the representatives of SGPC were honoured with Siropaos (robe of honours) at Gurdwara Sri Panja Sahib.

However, Saka Panja Sahib  occurred at Panja Sahib, Hassan Abdal in Pakistan. The Saka was about to stop the train and to serve Langar to hungry Sikh prisoners of Guru Ka Bagh  Morcha, who were taken to Attock for two and half years Imprisonment. Bhai Karam Singh & Bhai Partap Singh was killed in this incident.

On the 8th August, 1922, the police arrested five Sikhs for cutting Acacia wood for langar (community kitchen) from uncultivated land attached to Gurdwara Guru Ka Bagh. Everyone was sentenced on charge of stealing wood from the land of the Mahant Sundar Das who was appointed care taker of Gurudwara Guru
Ka Bagh by British Rulers. Sikhs had initiated the Morcha Guru Ka Bagh to liberate Gurdwara from the possession of Mahanat Sundar Das.