Jammu, April 15 -- TALWANDI SABO, Apr 15: On the auspicious occasion of Baisakhi, senior leadership of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Punjab joined thousands of devotees in celebration of this festival, which commemorates establishment of the Khalsa panth or Sikh order by tenth Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh on this day in 1699, at the Takht Sri Damdama Sahib Gurdwara, one of the five temporal seats of Sikhism in the sacred town of Talwandi Sabo in Bathinda.

On this festival which also marks begging of Sikh New Year as per the Nanakshahi calendar, a delegation of senior Punjab BJP leadership including Senior Advocate HS Phoolka, Member of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee Jathedar Charanjit Singh Kalewal, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)...