TAN DHESI ATTENDS BANDI CHHOR DIWAS AT KHALSA PRIMARY SCHOOL, SLOUGH

Tanmanjeet Singh, the member of Parliament for Slough and former mayor of Gravesham and the chair of Gravesham Constituency Labour Party in Kent attended the Bandhi Chhor celebrations at Khalsa Primary School in Slough where he made a speech and led the countdown to start the fireworks display.

Bandi Chhor Divas which means the ‘Day of Liberation’ is a Sikh holiday which coincides with the day of Diwali. In late 20th century, Sikh religious leaders started marking Diwali as Bandi Chhor Divas, and the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee adopted this name along with the Nanakshahi calendar in 2003.

Bandi Chhor Divas celebrates the event when sixth Sikh Guru ‘Guru Harigobind Singh Ji’ was released from prison by Mughal emperor Jahangir along with other 52 Hindu Kings.

Known with his nick name ‘Tan Dhesi’, Tanmanjeet Singh took to twitter to share an image of him wherein a beautiful firework can be seen in the background.

Attended the #BandhiChhor #celebrations at #KhalsaPrimarySchool where I made a #speech and led the countdown to start the #fireworks display pic.twitter.com/N0DMuBlssn

— TanmanjeetS Dhesi MP (@TanDhesi) October 23, 2017