{"id":77751,"date":"2016-11-15T15:29:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T15:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/?p=77751"},"modified":"2016-11-15T15:29:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T15:29:37","slug":"gurupurab-celebrations-at-rashtrapati-bhawan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/77751","title":{"rendered":"Gurupurab Celebrations at Rashtrapati\u00a0 Bhawan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77752\" src=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PPN1411201619.jpg\" alt=\"ppn1411201619\" width=\"1032\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PPN1411201619.jpg 1032w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PPN1411201619-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PPN1411201619-1024x435.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1032px) 100vw, 1032px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Delhi, November 14 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; President of India Pranab Mukherjee today facilitated the Sikhs on the birthday of Guru Nannak dev Ji , the founder of the Sikh religion and it was celebrated with celebrated with usual fervor and religious sanctity at Rastrapati \u00a0Bhawan.President of the Sikh Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee Manjit Singh GK and secretary Manjinder\u00a0 Singh Sirsa formally honoured the president Mukherjee on behalf of the Committee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sirsa also welcomed and thanked the president and entire congregation for participating in the function. Former prime minister Manmohan Singh and former deputy prime minister Lal Krishan Advani were part of the congregation. The function was organized by the DSGMC.\u00a0Gurpurab is celebrated at Rashtrapati Bhawan since the times of first president of India Dr Rajendra Prasad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Gurbani Kirtan (hymn) was performed on the auspicious occasion which was rendered by the team led by Bhai Rai Singh, hazoori ragi,\u00a0 Shri Darbar Sahib , Amritsar.Addressing the congregation, Sirsa said that Guru Nanakji worked for uplifting humanity by promoting a casteless and classless society that respected all religion sans ritualism and superstitions. He raised his voice against all and mighty barbaric rulers of the day while preaching equality and urging the people to be benevolent and partake their wealth with the needy and hapless.\u00a0 He sought not only equally but put women of higher pedestal \u2013 an ideal which is still to be accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>Sirsa emphasized that even during those days, Nanak undertook four major pilgrimages and toured almost one third of the present day world to spread his spiritual message which remains equally relevant today.Pranab Mukherjee led the congregation to \u2018langer\u201d which was organized at the Rastrapati Bhawan itself.\u00a0After the holy prayer (Ardas), president honoured kirtani jatha and five DSGMC office bearers Mr. Manjit Singh, Manjinder Singh sirsa, vice president Mohinder Pal Singh Chadda , junior \u00a0vice president Satpal Singh,\u00a0 joint secretary Amarjit Singh and Principal Dr. Jaswinder Singh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, November 14 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; President of India Pranab Mukherjee today facilitated the Sikhs on the birthday of Guru Nannak dev Ji , the founder of the Sikh religion and it was celebrated with celebrated with usual fervor and religious sanctity at Rastrapati \u00a0Bhawan.President of the Sikh Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee Manjit Singh &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-english"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gurupurab Celebrations at Rashtrapati\u00a0 Bhawan | Punjab Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/77751\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gurupurab Celebrations at Rashtrapati\u00a0 Bhawan | Punjab Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi, November 14 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; 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