A Gurudwara dedicated to Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale was inaugurated on Thursday, 22 February, at his native village Rode in Moga district of Punjab. The Sikh temple honouring the Khalistan separatist leader, who was killed in Operation Bluestar in 1984, was build by the Damdami Taksal, an organisation he once headed.

The foundation stone for the temple named ‘Gurdwara Sant Khalsa’ was laid in September 2007.

Harnam Singh Dhuma, the head of Damdami Taksal, told The Indian Express that Bhindranwale’s ancestral home in Rode was converted to a Gurudwara to “honour his martyrdom.”