Prayers for Beant Singh's assassin held in Golden Temple

Prayers and post-death rituals for Dilawar Singh, the assassin of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh, were today organised in Akal Takht, the top Sikh temporal seat, on the 20th anniversary of the incident.
It was on this day in 1995 that Dilawar Singh blew himself up to kill Beant Singh within the premises of Punjab Secretariat in Chandigarh.
Representatives of some pro-Khalistan groups participated in the prayers held in the Golden Temple premises.
On the occasion, there were demands by Sikh hardline groups like Dal Khalsa, SAD (Amritsar) and Panch Pardhani for installing the portrait of Dilawar Singh in the Sikh Central Museum.