Prime
Minister Narendra Modi on Monday paid tributes to freedom fighters and martyrs
of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and visited the historic Golden Temple on a
day-long visit to Punjab.
Soon
after his arrival, Modi went straight to Hussainiwala in Ferozepur district by
a helicopter where he paid tributes to freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Rajguru
and Sukhdev at the National Martyrs Memorial on the anniversary of their
martyrdom.
He later
visited the Jallianwala Bagh memorial and paid floral tributes at the memorial,
where British troops opened fire and killed hundreds of unarmed Indians in
April 1919. He
stopped by the Martyr's Well which stands testimony to the brutal killing of
people, many of whom had no way to save themselves but to jump in it.
The prime
minister ended his day-long visit to Punjab by spending about 40 minutes at the
Golden Temple. This was his first visit to the complex after becoming prime
minister. Modi
undertook the ‘parikrama’ of the Harmandir Sahib and paid obeisance in the
sanctum sanctorum, where he was offered a 'Siropa' (robe of honour) by the
priest.
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