INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
including the state's deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya and BJP spokesperson Sidharth Nath Singh, offered Guru Nanak birthday
wishes to people on Twitter on Saturday
However, they were quickly corrected that Guru Nanak birthday falls between October and November
This year, the world will celebrate the guru's jayanti on November 23.Guru Nanak Dev was the founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten
His birth is celebrated as Gurpurab on Kartik Purnima, the full-moon day in the Kartik month of the Hindu calendar.Mr Maurya had posted an
image of Guru Nanak with a message, "Sikkhon Ke Pratham Dharm Guru, Darshnik aur Samaj Sudharak avam Shreshta Sangeetagya Guru Nanak Dev Ji
the post before deleting it later.Some of the tweets were deleted later, but Sidharth Nath Singh decided to aplogise for the faux pas
However, he blamed Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, for the goof-up and attached a screenshot of the page on the Sikh saint which said he
Lucknow on Baisakhi, where he urged the youth "to draw inspiration from the sacrifice of the Sikh gurus to protect the country".
