Chandigarh: The Punjab government will be holding a special assembly session at Anandpur Sahib, district Ropar, on November 24 to commemorate the 350 th martyrdom anniversary of Guru Tegh Bahadur.
It is for the first time in the state that a special assembly session was proposed to be held outside the state capital – Chandigarh.
Briefing the newspersons in the context, Punjab education minister Harjot Singh Bains on Friday said that a series of programmes, including nagar kirtans, kirtan darbars, light and sound show, drone shows and major religious gatherings at Anandpur Sahib, will be held to mark the martyrdom anniversary.
The programmes will be started with the four nagar Kirtans to be commenced from different parts of the country - one will begin from Srinagar (Jammu & Kashmir