Modi govt. trying to save 1984 anti- Sikh riot accused: AAP

TIL Desk/National/Chandigarh/ Senior AAP leader H S Phoolka today alleged that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government and SAD of trying to save those accused, including Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, in the 1984 anti-Sikh riot case. “There are clear indications that on the pattern of Congress the Modi-led government is also trying hard to save the accused Congress leader Jagdish Tytler and others,” he alleged.

It is evident from the last two-years of the NDA government that it is “deliberately delaying” investigations in the case against the accused involved in the “massacre of Sikhs”, he said.

“In December 2015, the Supreme Court had instructed the CBI to complete the investigations within two-months. However, instead of acting on the instructions of the apex court, the Modi government not only delayed investigations but has recently demanded an extra four months time,” he alleged. “Eyeing the Punjab elections the BJP and SAD do not want to take-up cases against the accused and take it to its logical conclusion,” he said.

Training his gun on Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh, he alleged, “To get himself declared as the Congress’ chief ministerial candidate in Punjab and to continue as Punjab Congress chief, he is busy distributing clean chits to the key accused of the 1984 anti-Sikhs riots, Jagdish Tytler and Kamal Nath.”  “Had the accused of the 1984 riots been given exemplary punishment at an appropriate time, nobody could have dared to engineer such riots in any part of the country, which takes place so often now,” Phoolka claimed.