Sikh body asks SGPC to build memorial at Hondh Chillar

Amritsar, November 19

Activists of the All India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF) today performed ‘ardaas’ at Hondh Chillar village near Gurugram where 32 Sikhs were killed in November 1984.

Federation chief Karnail Singh Peermohammad demanded the SGPC to construct a memorial at Hondh Chillar in the memory of the Sikhs massacred there.

He said, “The then jathedar of the Akal Takht and the SGPC president had declared to construct a memorial during their visit to Hondh Chillar. The SGPC had also passed a resolution in its executive body meeting and the work was assigned to a kar sewa organisation. The houses of the Sikhs killed in the attack were also to be preserved, but they too are in a dilapidated condition.”

He said the federation would file an online petition to the US government. “We conducted a signature campaign at Hondh Chillar. Lately, we held a camp at Gurdwara Bangla Sahib during which devotees signed the petition. Till date, around 76,000 signatures have been collected. We aim to collect at least one lakh signatures by November 26, before posting the petition on the White House website,” he said.—TNS