India, March 2 -- Owe Ground in Navi Mumbai's sector 29 resembled a devotional township on Sunday, with lakhs of people queued up for a darshan of the Sikh holy book Guru Granth Sahib amid continuous prayers, kirtan and chants of 'Waheguru' and 'Bole So Nihal, Sat Sri Akal'.

Sunday was the concluding day of a two-day congregation organised by the state government's minority development department along with the state coordination committee to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth Sikh guru. Also known as 'Hind di Chadar', Guru Teg Bahadur fought for religious freedom and was beheaded in 1675 on orders from Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. The two-day event commemorating his martyrdom drew around 1.8-...