A woman was allegedly denied entry to Golden Temple in Punjab’s Amritsar as she had a tricolour painted on her face. A video of the incident has gone viral on social media, drawing the wrath of several users.
In the clip which is being widely circulated on the internet, the woman and a man can be seen confronting the person who did not allow her to enter the Sikh shrine.
On being asked why the woman was not allowed to enter the gurudwara, the person said, “She has a flag on her face.” When the woman said that it was an Indian flag, he said, “This is Punjab, not India.”
It is to be noted that, many people who visit the Attari-Wagah border for the Beating Retreat ceremony get their faces painted in Tricolour and then visit the Golden Temple. This could be one such case.
Woman denied entry to Golden Temple because she had a India 🇮🇳 flag painted on her face!
The man who denied her entry into Golden Temple said this is Punjab, not India@AmitShah @PMOIndia @narendramodi @GoldenTempleInd @ArvindKejriwal
Is bande ko Pakistan ke Punjab bhejo pic.twitter.com/nSgbOxVkoN
— HARSH KESHRI (@HarshKeshri2209) April 17, 2023
As the video of the incident evoked sharp reactions from social media users, the General Secretary of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) issued a statement.
“This is a Sikh shrine. Every religious place has its own decorum…We welcome everyone…We apologise if an official misbehaved…The flag on her face was not our national flag as it didn’t have Ashoka Chakra. It could have been a political flag”, Gurcharan Singh Grewal, SGPC General Secretary said on being asked about the viral video.
In this background, netizens are showing their outrage against this incident and are slamming the authorities. Few of them also reminded how Khalistani flags were hurled in the Golden Temple premises in 2021 and no action was taken against them.
Earlier in 2021, on the occasion of the 37th anniversary of Operation Blue Star, posters of Khalistani terrorist Jarnail Bhindranwale and Khalistani flags were seen during an event inside Sri Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) in Amritsar, Punjab.
Hundreds of people gathered inside the Golden Temple and were seen holding the flags and raising slogans.
