With her body draped in the Khalsa flag, Bibi Sur­jit Kaur, oc­to­ge­nar­ian mother of chief of Khal­is­tan Lib­er­a­tion Force Bhai Gur­jant Singh was cre­mated at her na­tive vil­lage Budhs­ingh­wala with full Khalsa ho­n­ours by var­i­ous Pan­thic or­gan­i­sa­tions and lead­ers.

Eighty-three year old Sur­jit Kaur passed away last night af­ter a brief ill­ness. A large cross sec­tion of Sikh so­ci­ety, at­tended her cre­ma­tion, with San­gat from nearby vil­lages and lead­ers of var­i­ous Sikh groups who con­tinue to up­hold the de­mand for an in­de­pen­dent Sikh state.

The pyre was lit by her lone sur­viv­ing son Ja­groop Singh amidst slo­gans of Khal­is­tan Zind­abad. It may be borne in mind that three of her other sons, in­clud­ing Gur­jant Singh Budhs­ing­wala, were killed by the se­cu­rity forces of Pun­jab dur­ing the Sikh strug­gle for rights in the last decades of the last cen­tury.

Bhai Daljit Singh Bittu, Kan­warpal Singh, Sar­b­jit Singh Ghu­man ,  Bhai Am­rik Singh Aj­nala, head of break­away fac­tion of Damdami Tak­sal, Man­jin­der Singh Issi and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Shi­ro­mani Akali Dal (Am­rit­sar) at­tended the cre­ma­tion.

15 April 2019, Bagha Pu­rana, Farid­kot, WSN News Bu­reau