Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation from the Red Fort on April 21, as part of the Centre's grand celebration of Sikh religious leader Guru Tegh Bahadur's 400th birth anniversary.
The announcement was made by Union Culture Minister G Kishan Reddy while addressing the media.
Modi will also release a commemorative coin and postage stamp in honour of the ninth guru of the Sikh religion. The stamp, to be of Rs 400 denomination, will carry the picture of Guru Ke Mahal. Home minister Amit Shah will also be part of the events.
The Centre has organised the two-day event in coordination with the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee starting April 20. As part of the celebrations, four hundred Sikh musicians known as ‘ragis’ will perform in a ‘shabad kirtan, the minister said. Chief ministers of several states and prominent people from India and abroad will be part of the celebrations.
In October 2020, the Centre had formed a 70-member committee to help materialise these plans. The Committee’s members included former PM Dr Manmohan Singh, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, chief ministers of Punjab Haryana, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha and Rajasthan.
Akali Dal leaders Parkash Singh Badal and Sukhbir Singh Badal, SGPC president Gobind Singh Longowal, former chief of Indian Army JJ Singh, former chief of Indian Air Force Birender Singh Dhanoa, and sportspersons Milkha Singh and Harbhajan Singh are some of the other members.
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