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Sikh leaders want Manmohan-led Congress Government at Centre to quit | There have been strong reactions
in Sikh circles to the final conclusion of arguments in the Delhi Court that was
hearing cases related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. On Monday, the Central Bureau
of Investigation (CBI) had concluded that Congress leader Sajjan Kumar had incited
mobs to attacks Sikhs during the riots in New Delhi . Sikh leaders have called
on the Manmohan-led UPA Government at the Centre to quit and take moral responsibility
for their leaders secret involvement in the anti-Sikh riots. Punjab Revenue and
Public Relations Minister Bikram Singh Majithia said the Congress has no moral
right to stay on in power at the Centre. He said the Sikhs had all along maintained
that the Congress leaders had taken the law into their own hands in 1984, and
added that the Gandhi family was also responsible for the killing of hundreds
of the Sikhs. Majithia said the Congress and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi
acted hand in glove with the killers of Sikhs, and added that Congress leaders
and activists incited mobs to act violently and in a retributive manner. "Our
stand had been vindicated that the Congress was responsible for the killing and
massacre of the Sikhs in the national capital and other cities of the country
in 1984’’, said Majithia. BJP State Executive Member Rajinder Mohan Singh said
in a statement that what they had been saying for the years has now come true.
"The CBI has finally admitted that violence against the Sikhs had the backing
of Congress leaders,’’ he stated, adding it was Congress leaders like Sajjan Kumar
who incited the mobs against the Sikhs. The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee’s
executive member, Rajinder Singh Mehta, said anti-Sikh riot victims were yet to
get justice 28 years after the violent event. "It was always clear that it was
the Congress leaders who were responsible for the massacre of the Sikhs.The investigating
agencies were also under pressure not to work against influential persons who
were made ministers in the government by successive Congress governments in Delhi,"
claimed Mehta. Meanwhile, American Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee coordinator Dr.
Pritpal Singh said the CBI already had taken nearly three decades to submit its
final report in the court, and felt that now the case should be fast tracked to
punish the guilty. The CBI had told the court of Additional Sessions Judge J R
Aryan that Delhi Police had acted in a pre-planned manner during the riots, and
kept its "eyes closed" to the violence. About 150 riot-related complaints were
made, but only five cases were registered. Sajjan Kumar and five others are accused
of inciting mobs in the Delhi Canttonment area of the city where six Sikhs were
killed in riots that broke out after the assassination of Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi on October 31, 1984. |
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