The Young Khalsa through its many or­gan­i­sa­tions con­vinces mem­bers of 34 Gur­d­wara Com­mit­tees to cel­e­brate Guru Gob­ind Singh Gur­purab on 5 Jan­u­ary and avoid any fur­ther con­fu­sion in the mat­ter. 

Rising to the oc­ca­sion, the Young Khalsa was at its de­ter­mined best when it per­suaded the mem­ber com­mit­tees of Cen­tral Sikh Gur­d­wara Com­mit­tee Jamshed­pur to cel­e­brate Parkash Purab of Guru Gob­ind Singh on 5 Jan­u­ary this year dur­ing a meet­ing held on 10 De­cem­ber at Modi Park, Bish­tupur. 

The youth or­gan­i­sa­tions in­clud­ing Gur­mat Par­char Cen­tre, Dharam Par­char Com­mit­tee, Sikh Youth Brigade, Sikh Wel­fare Com­mit­tee Man­i­feet and Nau­jawan Sabha Ki­tadhi. Gur­d­wara Sahib Baba Deep Singh and Gur­d­wara Sahib Birsa Na­gar lent the move­ment am­ple sup­port by stead­fastly stick­ing to the de­ci­sion to cel­e­brate Gur­purab of Dasam Pita on 5 Jan­u­ary.

Promi­nent amongst those who at­tended the meet in­cluded Harvin­der Singh Jamshed­puri, Sukhvin­der Singh, Jaswant Singh, Sur­jit Singh, Gul­shan Singh and Ran­jit Singh. 

Speak­ing to World Sikh News, youth ac­tivist Harvin­der Singh Jamshed­puri said, “Though we have been cel­e­brat­ing Gur­purab of Guru Gob­ind Singh in the past years as per the dates pro­vided by the Jathedars, the con­fu­sion that was cre­ated with two dates this year had to be re­solved and we have de­cided to adopt the Mool Nanakshahi Cal­en­dar date of 5 Jan­u­ary.”

“Though we have been cel­e­brat­ing Gur­purab of Guru Gob­ind Singh in the past years as per the dates pro­vided by the Jathedars, the con­fu­sion that was cre­ated with two dates this year had to be re­solved and we have de­cided to adopt the Mool Nanakshahi Cal­en­dar date of 5 Jan­u­ary.”

Harvin­der Singh Jamshed­puri

For the nearly two hun­dred thou­sand strong Sikh com­mu­nity with 34 Gur­d­waras in Jamshed­pur, the Cen­tral Gur­d­wara Par­band­hak Com­mit­tee, which over­sees the func­tion­ing and cen­tralised man­age­ment of these Gur­d­waras, will also cel­e­brate the Gur­purab on 5 Jan­u­ary and the Na­gar Kir­tan will be held on 3 Jan­u­ary. 

It is re­li­ably learnt that the youth bod­ies had asked the Cen­tral Gur­d­wara bod­ies to con­sider their plea re­gard­ing cel­e­brat­ing Gur­purab on 5 Jan­u­ary through a let­ter and were promised a hear­ing in the meet­ing but as this did not hap­pen the youth took the uni­lat­eral de­ci­sion and then per­suaded the com­mit­tee mem­bers to adopt the Nanakshahi Cal­en­dar date to avoid con­fu­sion. 

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Things were made easy for the var­i­ous Gur­d­wara com­mit­tees when Jathedar Takht Patna Sahib Gi­ani Iqbal Singh gave a let­ter to the Cen­tral Com­mit­tee al­low­ing to cel­e­brate the Gur­purab as per their con­ve­nience.