Mandate to 1984 anti-Sikh riot accused may cost Cong in JK

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Hakeem Irfan
Srinagar, April 04: The Congress decision to give mandate for the coming Lok Sabha elections to 1984 anti-Sikh riots accused Jagdish Tytler may cost the party dear in the State.
“The decision has hurt the sentiments of Sikh community. Congress was pretending to be pro-Sikhs but this decision has exposed them. We appeal the entire Sikh community to vote against Congress,” Gurduwara Prabandhak Committee (GPC) President, Indumeet Singh told Rising Kashmir.

The GPC is meeting in Baramulla on Sunday to discuss the development. The GPC has already started sending SMS appeals to the Sikh community to refrain from voting for Congress in the coming elections.
The Congress high command nominated Tytler, a controversial politician, as one of its candidates for the coming parliamentary elections after CBI, India’s main investigating agency, gave him a clean chit in the 1984 Sikh riots for which he was one of the prime accused.
Tytler was the Union Minister of State for Overseas Indian Affairs, a position he resigned from after an official commission of inquiry noted the “balance of probability” indicated he was responsible for inciting and leading murderous mobs against the Sikh community in Delhi during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, a charge he denies.
President Shiromani Akali Dal Simranjit Singh Mann termed the Congress decision to field Tytler in the coming Lok Sabha elections as ‘the murder of humanity’.
“Rahul Gandhi said Tytler has served Congress. This means his father had mastered the killings in 1984. It is the politics of vengeance. Congress and BJP are two faces of the same coin. BJP has given mandate to Varun, Congress to Tytler. No Sikh or Muslim should vote for Congress or BJP, although we as party may even question the participation in the coming elections.”
Condemning the decision, All India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF) stressed that Congress should rethink on the decision.
“Tytler is a killer who masterminded Sikh massacre in 1984. The decision has also made the CBI’s credibility questionable and dubious,” AISSF President Manjeet Singh Sodi said in the party’s executive meeting.
He demanded that the government should reopen the case and thoroughly investigate the part played by Jagdish Tytler that had been given by Nanavati Report.
AISSF has also planned to protest against the decision of the Congress high command in front of the Congress office at Lal Chowk on Sunday.
Senior Sikh leaders said: “This should not have happened. It has aggrieved the sentiments of Sikh community. The decision will have some political effects in the coming elections

source : http://www.risingkashmir.com