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Sikhs leave for Lahore to mark Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Amritsar: A
group of 200 Sikh pilgrims left for Lahore in Pakistan on Sunday by special trains
on the occasion of 170th death anniversary of Maharaja Ranjeet Singh who ruled
the Punjab province for 40 years. He died in 1839. Every year Sikhs visit Pakistan
to pay their obeisance at the mausoleum of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in Lahore at
the Gurdwara Dera Sahib on the occasion of his death anniversary. The group is
scheduled to stay in Pakistan for 10 days and visit Gurdwara Janamasthan in Nankana
Sahib, Gurdwara Rohri Sahib, Lahore 's Gurdwara Dera Sahib, Gurdwara Sacha Sodha
Sahib and Gurdwara Punja Sahib. The main ceremony of Maharaja Ranjit Singh's death
anniversary will be organised at the Gurdwara Dera Sahib in Lahore between June
27 to 30. Group leader Baldev Singh, M.A., said that after spending a day in Punja
Sahib, we would go to Nankana sahib and other Gurdwaras. We would observe the
death annivasry of Maharaja Ranjit Singh at Lahore . Gurcharn Singh, one of the
members of the group from Uttarakhand said, "We would not only mark the death
anniversary but also try to visit the ancestral village." Born in 1780 in Gujranwala
, Maharaja Ranjit Singh succeeded his father at the age of 12. After several war
campaigns, his rivals accepted him as their leader. He united the Sikh factions
into one large state. Ranjit Singh assumed the title of Maharaja on April 12,
1801.
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