The festival of Baisakhi is being celebrated in Punjab with enthusiasm and brotherhood, today. The occasion has a religious, cultural and historical value.
Whilst it is religiously important as it was on this day the Khalsa Panth was founded, culturally and traditionally, it is significant as a festival of harvest. Historically, it is vital as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre was also happened on this day in Amritsar.
It was on this day in the year 1699; the Tenth Guru Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji founded the Khalsa Panth at Gurdwara Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib, located in Sri Anandpur Sahib. Large number of devotees from across the country and abroad are paying obeisance here and at Sri Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar besides other Gurudwaras since early morning and listening to the the holy Gurbani.
Traditionally, the farmers are celebrating Baisakhi, by starting harvesting the golden wheat crop standing in their farms. On this day, the Nation also remembers hundreds of those innocents who were massacred by the British Officer Reginald Dyer in Jallianwala Bagh in 19 hundred 19. That killing of the innocents had further ignited the India’s independence movement. People from all walks of life are paying tributes to them at the Bagh.