17 yrs on, Chamkaur Sahib theme park likely to open on Nov 19

Tribune News Service

Chamkaur Sahib, November 12

Seventeen years after its announcement in 2004 by the then Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, a theme park built in the memory of Guru Gobind Singh’s elder Sahibzadas — Baba Ajit Singh and Baba Jujhar Singh — in Chamkaur Sahib is likely to be opened for public on November 19.

Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, who had inspected the final preparations in this regard on October 26 during a function at Chamkaur Sahib, recently announced that the theme park would be inaugurated on November 19. On December 20, 2004, Capt Amarinder Singh, besides declaring Chamkaur Sahib as a subdivision, had announced a national memorial in the memory of the two elder Sahibzadas and 40 other Sikhs who had attained martyrdom while fighting the Mughals.

While the work on 14-acre project was started two years later in 2006, it was halted during the term of the SAD-BJP government. After the Congress came back to power in 2017, work on the theme park commenced again. A total of 11 galleries for organising as many shows on Sikh history using multimedia-based ultramodern technology have been set up in the park.

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The visitors would be introduced to the history of the Sikh Gurus in the first multimedia show, following which they would be shown the ‘sakhi’ of martyr Bhai Jaita, who had brought the severed head of Guru Teg Bahadur from Delhi. The next three shows would be dedicated to Guru Gobind Singh, which would be followed by an animated show depicting the Battle of Chamkaur Sahib.

Besides, a musical park, a 10-metre high stainless steel ‘khanda’ weighing 8 metric tonne and two swords of similar height, weighing one tonne each, have also been installed.