MANORANJAN KALIA                                                              Former Local Govt. Industries &

                         Advocate                                                                    Commerce Minister, Punjab,

                                                                                                                   158/4, Central Town, Jalandhar.

                                                                                                                                 Tele No. 99155-78783                                                                                                 

Date:-   24-01-2019

                                                     

PRESS NOTE

Jalandhar City 24 th Jan 2019    Former State President & Former Minister Punjab Mr Manoranjan Kalia said in a Press statement that the reported proposal of Pakistan to allow only Sikh Pilgrims inside the historic Sri Kartarpur Sahib Gurudwara has exposed Machiavellian designs of Pakistan of creating a divide between the devotees of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji  . When the tenth Guru Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji formed the Khalsa Panth to fight against Mughals ,  It has been a practice thereafter in every Hindu Family to make  its eldest son to be a Sikh . Thus all the ten Gurus are revered by Sikhs as well as Hindus . Both Hindus and Sikhs celebrate the days of All the ten Gurus with great enthusiasm in India as well as abroad. Thus the ties of Hindus and Sikhs are intertwined in such a way to make it inseparable.  

                             It is pertinent to note that Sindhi Hindu Families whether living in Pakistan or in India revere only  Shri Guru  Nanak Dev Ji as their Isht. What about the descendants of Bhai Bala and Bhai Mardana, the disciples of Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji, will they be not allowed to pay obeisance  at Shri Kartarpur Sahib. When Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji visited  different places of the world, the native  people 

started revering  Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji with different names in India- Guru Nanak Dev Ji, In Sri Lanka- Nanakcharia, In Tibet- Nanak Lama, In Sikkim & Bhutan- Guru Rimpochia, In Mecca- Wali Rind, In Russia- Nanak Kadamdar, In Iraq- Baba Nanak,

In Nepal- Nanak Rishi, In Bagdad- Nanak Peer, In Missr- Nanak Wali and In China - Baba Fussa. Thus the reverence of  Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji transcends the boundaries of the Countries.   

                             Sh. Kalia further said how Pakistan would have felt if only Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan are allowed to visit their shrines and Muslims are refrained from visiting Ajmer Shariff ?            

                             Mr. Kalia appealed to the Prime Minister of India Mr Narendera Modi and Union External Affairs Minister Smt Sushma Swaraj to take up the matter with the Pakistan Counterpart and the entry of Sri Kartarpur Sahib Corridor must be open for all Devotees , for  Sikhs as  well as Hindus whosoever want to pay their obeisance at Gurudwara Sri Kartarpur Sahib on the occasion of celebrations of 550 th Birth Anniversary of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji .

Manoranjan Kalia

Released by Ashish Chopra .