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SGPC rages against Tytler's inclusion in Olympic delegation | Amid the ongoing row over former Congress MP Jagdish Tytler being
included in the official delegation to the Olympics, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak (SGPC)
President Avtar Singh Makkar on Sunday said that he would be writing a letter
to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in protest of the former's inclusion. Makkar
said the decision had hurt the sentiments of the Sikh community and the victims
of the 1984 riots. "I believe that this move would agitate sentiments of the Sikh
community and the old wounds will be revived. I suggest that such a person (Jagdish
Tytler) should not be publicly promoted. On one hand the Congress talks about
justice for the Sikh community, we are still awaiting that justice, no one has
been convicted and these are all paper talks," Makkar told the media in Ludhiana
. "While on the other hand, they publicly promote those who have cases registered
against them, the Sikh community has been fighting such people and victims of
those riots have been agitating against them," he added. Vice President of Indian
Olympic Association (IOA), Tarlochan Singh, however, said that Tytler was not
part of the IOA delegation, but was representing the Judo Federation of India,
of which he is the President. "Protest against this decision has today been lodged
by the President of the SGPC, which is the apex religious body for the Sikh community,
to not send Jagdish Tytler for the London Olympics. Members of the Sikh community
have held meeting in London too for the past couple of days, they are protesting
that British government should deny admission to Jagdish Tytler in the country
and if he comes then the Sikhs will protest," Singh told the media in New Delhi
. "But today the position is that the Indian Olympic delegation will be headed
by our interim President, Vijay Kumar Malhotra, with Secretary General of IOA,
Randhir Singh, along with two other delegates, B.P. Baishya, President of the
Weightlifting Federation and myself. Other than that there is no IOA delegation
as such which is to go there. Jagdish Tytler's name does not feature in the IOA
delegation," he added. Malhotra on the other hand said that Tytler was the Chairman
of the Volunteer Committee for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, and added that no
protest was held opposing his participation in those games. "Even in the Commonwealth
Games in Delhi he was heading the Judo federation, he was the Chairman of the
volunteer committee, nobody objected at that time in India and now objections
are being made in London ," said Malhotra. The 1984 Sikh Massacre was a pogrom
directed against Sikhs in northern India in response to the assassination of Indira
Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.
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