Baisakhi fact
Baisakhi symbolizes major events in the history of Sikhism and Indians.
1. Baisakhi falls in Vaishakh Nakshatra.
2. Baisakhi festival is an agricultural festival. In Vaishakh, the Rabi crop is completely ripe and harvesting starts on this day.
3. On the day of Baisakhi, Sun enters Aries. On this day, one is bathed with holy water.
4. Baisakhi is a major festival of Sikhism. This day symbolizes the birth of Khalsa sect by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699.
5.On the day of Baisakhi in 1801, Ranjit Singh Maharaj declared and created a unified political state.
6. During the Indian independence movement, the English officer, Regional Dyer, ordered his soldiers to open fire on the protesting crowd, an incident which is considered as the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.
7.For many Hindu communities, this festival involves ritualistic bathing in holy rivers like Ganga, Jhelum and Kaveri, visiting temples and donating hand feathers.
8. In many areas, processions of temple deities are taken out.
9.The festival of Baisakhi is celebrated as Nepali New Year because this day symbolizes the New Year according to the Hindu calendar Vikram Samvat.
10.The idols of Devi Kumari are kept in palanquin and taken around the entire city.
11.Bengali Hindu community celebrates its new year as Pohela Baisakh on this day where Bengali handicraft competition is organised.
12.Vidhu Utsav is organized in Kerala(Kerala style feast) and Sanskrit, comedy programs are included.
13.On this day in Tamil communityputhandu Is celebrated as.