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Siropa to Bachchan angers Sikh organizations       
WSN Network

AMRITSAR: Hindi film actor Amitabh Bachchan, along with wife Jaya, son Abhishek and daughter-in-law Aishwarya, paid obeisance at the Golden Temple on Saturday.

The Bachchan family accompanied by family friend and Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh reached the temple amidst a tight security cover. The family was here to offer prayers at the shrine after the demise of Amitabh's Sikh mother Teji Bachchan.

They reached the temple in a chartered bus from a private hotel, with more than 70 personal security guards besides an extra security cover of the Punjab Police. Bachchans spent 20 minutes inside the sanctorum and listened to kirtan.

Several Sikh organizations, meanwhile, protested against a special welcome having been accorded to the Bachchan family when the actor's role in instigating the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 was well known. Akali Dal (Amritsar) leader Simranjit Singh Mann joined the chorus of condemnation of the SGPC's act of presenting a siropa to Bachchan. An SGPC spokesman however denied that the gurdwara management extended a special welcome to the Bachchans, who he said were treated like common visitors to the shrine.
 

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2 Januuary 2008
 

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