Veer Bal Diwas | 25 Dec 2023

On 9^th January 2022, the day of the Prakash Purab of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji, the Prime Minister announced that every year 26^th December will be observed as ‘Veer Bal Diwas’, to mark the martyrdom of Sri Guru Gobind Singh’s younger sons Sahibzadas Baba Zorawar Singh Ji and Baba Fateh Singh Ji. 

• Zorawar Singh and Fateh Singh were captured by the Mughals and were taken to Sirhind, where they refused to convert to Islam. Consequently, the faujdar of Sirhind had them executed on 13^th December 1705.
• Earlier, the two elder sons of Guru Gobind Singh ji – Sahibzada Ajit Singh and Sahibzada Jujhar Singh sacrificed their lives on 7^th December 1705, in the battle of Chamkaur where a small number of Sikhs fought the huge army of the Mughals and the hill kings. 
• Guru Gobind Singh's four sons sacrificed their lives for the cause of Sikhism and their courage inspired generations of Sikhs.  

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