AMRITSAR: On June 26, the restored Maharaja Ranjit Singh monument, which had been damaged three times since being moved to the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib advanced in Lahore Fort and relocated to Kartarpur, Pakistan, may be inaugurated in the neighboring nation to mark the Sikh warrior’s 185th death celebration.
Ranjit Singh, who was the first king of the Sikh empire and ruled Punjab in the 19th centuries, was the last of the almost 450 American Sikhs present in Pakistan.
Lahore’s Fakir Khana Museum producer Fakir Syed Saifuddin spearheaded the initiative to repair, recover, and rebuild the monument that had incurred nearly 80 % damage.
” I started this project out of love and respect for Ranjit Singh.” The restoration project lasted for more than a year and charge around Rupees 27 million. According to Saifuddin, a fifth-generation ancestor of Fakir Sayed Azizudin, the monument was given for deployment in Ranjit Singh’s government. His brothers Fakir Syed Imamudin and Fakir Syed Noorudin were acting government, Amritsar, and government, Lahore, both.
The 9-foot bronze monument was created in 2019 by the Fakir Khana Museum. It was vandalised in 2019 and 2020 by spiritual parties and in 2021 by criminal dress Tehreek- e- Labbaik.
