CHANDIGARH, Jan. 13 -- PUNJAB Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to constitute a national level committee to oversee the year-long 400th Prakash Purb celebrations of Ninth Sikh Guru Teg Bahadur, on the lines of the 550th Prakash Purb celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev.

In a letter to the Prime Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh pointed out that the state government planned to celebrate the historic occasion in a befitting manner with a series of programmes through the year, beginning April 2020. The Chief Minister apprised Modi that Punjab Government was already in the process of drawing up a detailed proposal for the commemoration of this mega event and the same would be shortly sent to the GoI.

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