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Now another controversy over portrait of O'dwyer in Sikh museum
Satinder Bains
Monday, 10 December 2007
AMRITSAR: After installation of portrait of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindrawala in the Sikh museum in Golden Temple complex here, yet another controversy over the portrait of Sir Michael O' Dwyer former Lieutenant General of Punjab has put the Shiromani Gurdawara Parbhandak Committee (SGPC) in tight spot.
The portrait of Sir Michael O, Dwyer is installed in the Sikh museum which has courted serious trouble for SGPC following a NGO Shaheed-e-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh Youth Front vehemently opposed the presence of portrait of british ruler in the Sikh museum and issued an ultimatum to remove it within seven days.
Sir Michael O, Dwyer was Lieutenant General of Punjab at the time of Jallianwala massacre on April 19,1919 when Brigadier-General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer had ordered to open fire at people. O'Dwyer was shot dead in Caxton Hall in the heart of London on March 13, 1940, by freedom fighter, Sardar Udham Singh, to take revenge for the Amritsar massacre.
A veteran freedom fighter 105 year old Bapu Shingara Singh who was eye witness of massacre of 1919 of Jallianwala Bagh who joined issue with the NGO questioned the logic behind installing the portrait in Sikh museum.
Addressing the press conference here chairman of Shaheed –E-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh youth front Gurmit Singh Bablu said that Sikh museum of Golden Temple has meant for the portraits of martyrs but not for the traitors.
Bablu said that it was shocking for the people of Punjab and country to see the portrait of O'dwyer in the Sikh museum. Adding further while quoting the history Bablu said that Jalliawnwala Bagh a monemnet in close proximity of Golden Tempel stand witness to the 1919 massacre.
Bablu said that he and his organsition would not tolerate the potratit of O, Dwyer in the Sikh museum and urged the SGPC to remove it with in seven days.
On being contacted SGPC President Avtar Singh Makkar said that he would go through the facts that in which circumstances the potrait of O, Dwyer was displayed in the Sikh measum of Golden Temple and thereafter he would be able to say that it would be removed or stay in the museum.
The portrait of Sir Michael O, Dwyer is installed in the Sikh museum which has courted serious trouble for SGPC following a NGO Shaheed-e-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh Youth Front vehemently opposed the presence of portrait of british ruler in the Sikh museum and issued an ultimatum to remove it within seven days.
Sir Michael O, Dwyer was Lieutenant General of Punjab at the time of Jallianwala massacre on April 19,1919 when Brigadier-General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer had ordered to open fire at people. O'Dwyer was shot dead in Caxton Hall in the heart of London on March 13, 1940, by freedom fighter, Sardar Udham Singh, to take revenge for the Amritsar massacre.
A veteran freedom fighter 105 year old Bapu Shingara Singh who was eye witness of massacre of 1919 of Jallianwala Bagh who joined issue with the NGO questioned the logic behind installing the portrait in Sikh museum.
Addressing the press conference here chairman of Shaheed –E-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh youth front Gurmit Singh Bablu said that Sikh museum of Golden Temple has meant for the portraits of martyrs but not for the traitors.
Bablu said that it was shocking for the people of Punjab and country to see the portrait of O'dwyer in the Sikh museum. Adding further while quoting the history Bablu said that Jalliawnwala Bagh a monemnet in close proximity of Golden Tempel stand witness to the 1919 massacre.
Bablu said that he and his organsition would not tolerate the potratit of O, Dwyer in the Sikh museum and urged the SGPC to remove it with in seven days.
On being contacted SGPC President Avtar Singh Makkar said that he would go through the facts that in which circumstances the potrait of O, Dwyer was displayed in the Sikh measum of Golden Temple and thereafter he would be able to say that it would be removed or stay in the museum.
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