The unparalleled martyrdom of the four sons of the Sikh Guru Gobind Singh in December 1705 AD during Mughal rule was recollected and remembered in the Lok Sabha, which also expressed its condolences.
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Thursday said that the country cannot forget the martyrdom of the four sons of the Sikh Guru Gobind Singh and the House expresses its condolences.
While BS Mann (AAP) asked the House to pay tributes to the martyrs, ‘Sahibzade’, four Martyred Sons of Guru Gobind Singh — Ajit Singh , Jujhar Singh , Zorawar Singh Fateh Singh — who volunteered for service against overwhelming odds and fell, one after the other, battling Mughals.
PS Chandumajra (Shimoni Akali Dal) urged members to stand for 2 minutes and pay tributes to the Guru’s sons.
Ranjeet Ranjan (Congress) demanded that condolence meetings should be held across the country to mark the martyrdom. Union Minister and senior BJP leader SS Ahluwalia said the martyrdom should be respected.
The Speaker sought members to keep silence in the house witnessing bedlam since the word go in the morning. Congress and AIADMK members continued their sloganeering over various issues.
Mahajan said members were speaking on a serious issue and the protesting parties should observe silence and listen to them as the matter was not only related to the Sikh religion.
“Children were martyred...This is a serious issue. Please listen. I am talking about children who were martyred. The country joins in paying tributes,” she said adding “The country cannot forget the martyrdom and the House expresses its condolences”.
Four Sikh martyrs met death on the battlefield with two of them captured , imprisoned and tortured at the hands of Mughals who were offered the choice religious conversion to escape death. Both of the Guru’s sons, however, braced death as they were known to have been bricked alive.