July 4, 1955 attack on Golden Temple: SGPC to hold akhand path

Tribune News Service
Amritsar, June 30

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The SGPC has decided to organise an event to commemorate the attack on the Golden Temple by the then Congress government on July 4, 1955 during the Punjabi Suba Morcha.

To commemorate the attack, Akhand Path will be started at Gurdwara Sri Manji Sahib Diwan Hall on July 2, and the bhog will be held on July 4.

Addressing a press conference, SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur said, “Before the military attack on Golden Temple and Akal Takht by the Congress government in June 1984, an attack was also launched at this holy shrine to crush the Punjabi Suba Morcha in 1955. The attack took place at midnight of July 3 and 4, 1955. During this attack, the government sent a large number of police personnel to the shrine complex, under the leadership of DIG Mahasha Ashwani Kumar Sharma.”

Bibi Jagir Kaur said at that time Jawaharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister of India and Bhim Sen Sachar Chief Minister of Punjab.