PM Modi heads panel to supervise commemoration of birth anniversary of Guru Tegh Bahadur

New Delhi, Dec 28: The central government has modified the composition of the high-level committee set up to supervise commemoration of the 400th Birth Anniversary of Guru Tegh Bahadur with a few changes that included Prime Minister Narendra Modi as its Chairman and 70 other members.

 

In a Gazette Notification published, the Ministry of Home Affairs made the announcement regarding fresh modification in the Committee which is set up to approve policies, plans, programs and supervise as well as guide the commemoration of 400 Birth Anniversary of Guru Tegh Bahadur.

 

 

The Committee also decides broad dates for detailed programmes of celebration. Implementation of the recommendations of this Committee will be supervised by the Executive Committee. The updated notification mentions "partial modification" in the list of Committee members. The Committee was constituted and notified by the Government of India on October 24, 2020 and later updated on April 5 this year.

 

Earlier on December 25, PM Modi, while virtually addressing the Gurpurab celebrations at Gurudwara Lakhpat Sahib in Kutch of Gujarat, said, "Guru Tegh Bahadur's valour and his sacrifice against Aurangzeb teaches how the country fights against terror and religious extremism."

 

 

Besides Chairman Narendra Modi, other 70 members of the Committee include Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Jairam Gadkari, Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister of Narendra Singh Tomar are among other members of PM Modi's fresh Cabinet.

 

Other Ministers include Dharmendra Pradhan, Hardeep Singh Puri, Anurag Singh Thakur, G. Kishan Reddy, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh, Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal are also among the members of the Committee. All the Chief Ministers of their respective states are other members of the Committee.

 

 

Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister P. K. Mishra, Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Manoj Sinha, Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba are other members. Other Committee members comprise Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister Baldev Singh Aulakh, Rajya Sabha MPs from Punjab Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and Shwait Malik, Lok Sabha MPs S. S. Ahluwalia, Sukhbir Singh Badal, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Sunny Deol, Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, Kirron Kher and Navneet Ravi Rana.