Mahatma Gandhi portrait back on revamped border gate at Attari

Gandhi’s portrait is displayed on the Indian side of the border facing Pakistan. The Pakistani side has the photograph of Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

B S Rawat, DIG and PRO at the BSF Frontier Headquarters at Jalandhar, told The Indian Express that they had all along planned to put up the portrait and that the omission had not been deliberate. “A 52 inchX52 inch portrait has been put up on top of Swarn Jayanti Dwar. Another portrait will be put up in the national heroes’ gallery,” he said.

The Indian Express report on January 24

Congress MLA from Khadoor Sahib, Jasbir Singh Dimpa, had written to Home Minister Amit Shah following the report in The Indian Express and demanded that the portrait of the Father of the Nation be put back.

The Joint Check Post at Attari on the Indian side and Wagah on the Pakistan side is famous for the retreat ceremony every evening, when the national flags are lowered following an elaborately choreographed parade by personnel of the BSF and Pakistan Rangers.