Memorial fails to enthuse visitors

Mandi Ahmedgarh 30 NOV -Showing solidarity with their leaders and listening to speeches remained the priority of thousands of activists of the SAD and BJP who thronged the Wada Ghallughara Memorial at Rohira village near here today. Officials deputed at various buildings of the complex discouraged visitors from going near the memorial.The Wada Ghallughara Kup Rohira Memorial constructed at Rohira village near here in memory of 35,000 Sikhs who were massacred by Ahmed Shah Abdali on February 1762, failed to enthuse visitors to its interior today when Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal dedicated the same to the humanity.All visitors, dominantly activists of various units of the SAD and BJP, preferred to accompany their leaders to the pandal to paying a visit to various buildings of the memorial.Interpretation centre, museum, open-air theatre, tourist complex and reception centre were unfamiliar words for a majority of visitors, who interacted with this reporters on the conclusion of the function.“We were under this impression that the tower, which is visible from a distance is the only structure that has been constructed to commemorate the martyrs of the biggest holocaust so we did not bother to go inside the building,” responded Kuldeep Singh of Baurghai and Ranjit Singh Lohgarh.Ravinder Singh and Ramesh Kumar of Dhuri regretted that the cops on duty had not allowed them to go inside various buildings. “They told us that public will be allowed to enter various building only after the staff is deputed to supervise the complex,” reacted Singh and Kumar