According to Times of India "A group of Indian Sikhs will take out a religious procession (nagar kirtan) in streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh and celebrate birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev on December 4.
A Sikh jatha comprising of of six dozen devotees from Amritsar, Lucknow and Kolkotta have arrived Bangladesh to celebrate the Gurpurab informed chief of Sampardai Kar Sewa, Sarhali, Baba Sukha Singh while talking to TOI on Thursday.
Guru Nanak Dev had arrived Dhaka by boat which anchored at Shivpur village in the north of Dhaka, said he.
Sampardai has already set up a Sikh Research Center at Gurdwara Nankshahi with Dhaka University professor Niroli Kazi as its head.
He said they had received permission to take out religious procession by Dhaka administration which would be attended by Muslims, Hindus besides handful of Sikh population of Bangladesh. He informed that Gurpurab was being celebrated on December 4th owing to visa issues. He informed that bhog of Akhand Path would be performed on the occasion.
He said they were already carrying out karsewa (voluntary service) of various Gurdwaras in Bangladesh including Gurdwara Patshahi Pehli at Maiman Singh, Gurdwara Sangat Tola Dhaka, Gurdwara Nanakshahi, Dhaka besides construction of school in Chittagong.
Baba Sukha Singh informed that their aim was to spread message of Guru Nanak Dev and Sikhism, celebrate the Gurpurab's and other important occasion with devotion and reverence in Bangladesh besides taking care of the historical Gurdwaras.
Sampardai had offered to send trained ragis to Bangladesh for maintaining rehat maryada (Sikh code of conduct). Presently the Gurdwaras of Bangladesh were managed with the help of Bangladesh Gurdwara Management Board having its headquarter at Kolkata.
Earlier, Mata Amarkaur Memorial Sewa Society, Mukerian has asked the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to procure the revenue records of Dhaka University and Parliament of Bangladesh which was constructed on ten thousand acres of land donated on the name of Guru Nnaak Dev by a Nawab and take their possession since the land belonged to Sikh community."
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