Punjab Chief Minister Inaugurates Jallianwala Bagh Centenary Memorial Park

Amarinder Singh said the second memorial was a tribute to all those unknown martyrs who laid down their lives in the massacre.

At an emotionally charged event, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday inaugurated the Jallianwala Bagh Centenary Memorial Park in the memory of people who lost their lives in the massacre of April 13, 1919. Mr Singh said that while the original memorial had been built to remember people who were known to have been killed in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, this second memorial was a tribute to all those unknown martyrs who laid down their lives in the massacre. "Nobody knows the exact number of lives lost. Though the Deputy Commissioner (DC) office has the names of only 448 who fell to the bullets of the British led by General Dyer who fired on the orders of the then Governor of Punjab Michael O'' Dwyer, with 1250 bullets fired on that day, the number would have actually run in thousands," he stated. Mr Singh disclosed that a Special Research Team of historians and research scholars has been constituted by Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) for carrying out research on martyrs of Jallianwala Bagh and freedom fighters who were imprisoned at Cellular Jail, Port Blair.