- Saturday, March 01, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
At a time when Khalistan sympathisers have been accused of targeting India in various corners of the world, a woman has alleged that she was allegedly refused entry at the Golden Temple in Amritsar in the northern Indian state of Punjab since she painted the Indian Tricolour on her face.
A video clip of a confrontation related to the incident went viral on social media. India Weekly could not independently verify the footage.
1) A girl was stopped from entering Golden Temple because she had an Indian flag painted on her face.
The man who denied her entry into Golden Temple said, this is Punjab not India. pic.twitter.com/IfUi74poIk
— Anshul Saxena (@AskAnshul) April 17, 2023
In the video, it is seen that a man, accompanying the woman, asking a Sikh guard at the holy shrine the reason for not allowing her inside. As he replies saying “it’s Punjab”, the man asks him: “Is this not India?”
The clip, which the woman reportedly shot on a phone, shows them asking the guard repeatedly if it was not India to which the latter nodded in disagreement.
The clip concludes with the guard trying to snatch the woman’s phone when she confronts him. The woman can seen just for a moment at the beginning of the clip and then only her voice is heard.
The Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), which looks after the holy shrine, apologised over the guard’s behaviour but also said that the painting on the woman’s face was not an Indian flag since it did not show the Ashoka Chakra.
“This is a Sikh shrine. Every religious place has its own decorum…We welcome everyone…We apologise if an official misbehaved…The flag on her face was not our national flag as it didn’t have Ashoka Chakra. It could have been a political flag,” Gurcharan Singh Grewal, general secretary of SGPC, told news agency ANI.
