Chandigarh: In yet another incident of damaging Indian Maharaja’s statue in Pakistan, a statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh sitting on a horse has been vandalized for the third time there.
This 9-feet statue was made of cold bronze and uneiled at Lahore Fort in June 2019 to mark the the 180th death anniversary of the Maharaja. Singh.
The police said that the attackers were of the view that it’s against their religion to erect a statue of a Sikh ruler in a Muslim country.
It took eight months to complete the statue of the Sikh ruler sitting on his favourite horse named Kahar Bahar with a sword in hand. The horse was a gift from Dost Muhammad Khan, the founder of the Barazkai dynasty.
Meanwhile, local police have detained one accused in this case.
Maharaja Ranjit Singh is popularly known as Sher-e-Punjab or “Lion of Punjab”, was the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, which ruled the northwest Indian subcontinent in the early half of the 19th century. He survived smallpox in infancy but lost sight in his left eye. He fought his first battle alongside his father at age 10. After his father died, he fought several wars to expel the Afghans in his teenage years and was proclaimed as the “Maharaja of Punjab” at age 21. His empire grew in the Punjab region under his leadership through 1839.