AMRITSAR: UK and Pakistan-based organizations led by Punjabi speaking people will be observing March 29 as black day in protest against the annexation of Punjab to British dominion by the then British governor-general Dalhousie on March 29, 1849.
These organizations, including Punjabi Language Awareness Board (PLAB) , UK and Punjab National Movement, Pakistan, have also asked British prime minister Boris Johnson to apologise in parliament for the major killings of Punjabis. PLAB director Harmeet Singh Bhakna said that on March 29,1849, Dalhousie had declared that the kingdom of Punjab had ceased and all the territories of Maharaja Duleep Singh were British adominions. "Duleep Singh, 10, was made to sign terms drawn up by the British which divested him of the kingdom," he said.
