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Shameless Congress Gives Tickets to
Tytler, Sajjan Kumar
It is
time the Sikhs understand the paradigm in which Cong leads 1984
massacre, the BJP celebrates anti-Muslim stance
WSN Bureau
 NEW
DELHI: Negating in one fell swoop whatever sympathy it might have
gained from the Sikhs by making Dr Manmohan Singh its prime
ministerial candidate once again, India's ruling Congress widely
seen by Sikhs as representative of softcore Hindutva and deep-rooted
brahamanical powers snubbed the community by nominating Jagdish
Tytler and Sajjan Kumar as its Lok Sabha candidates from prestigious
seats in Delhi. Both Tytler and Sajjan Kumar are widely believed to
have led mobs that killed, burnt, looted the Sikhs and their
properties in
Delhi
in 1984 anti-Sikh genocide and have been held guilty by large
sections of even the wider Indian civil society.
Both Tytler and
Sajjan Kumar have been the target of repeated probes and their role
in carnage have often brought shame to the Congress as well as to
India'a claims of becoming an evolved democracy. In fact, Tytler had
to be dropped like a hot potato from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's
cabinet after a Commission of Inquiry appointed by the Government of
India exposed his nefarious role in the genocide.
Sikh
circles expressed surprise at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's
inability to prevail upon the Congress to keep such elements away
from the party.
The Congress
tickets to the two known killers are in step with the pace at which
the trial in the 1984 genocide killings was going on. Manmohan Singh
has consistently stayed away from matters perceived to be pro-Sikh.
 The Congress and
the Bharatiya Janata Party have been trading hate charges against
one another without showing scant regard for issues of justice. If
Congress is guilty of patroning those who led killings of the Sikhs
from the front, then the BJP matched it with the killings of the
Muslims in 2002. Each has a Tytler to match a Modi, a Sajjan Kumar
to match a Babu Bajrangi.
Sajjan Kumar and
Jagdish Tytler are widely believed to be responsible for
engineering, masterminding and executing the anti-Sikh pogrom in
Delhi in November 1984, after the assassination of the then Prime
Minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, which left 2, 733 killed as
per official statistics of the Ranganthan Mishra Commission, set up
by the government of India.
None of the
political bigwigs responsible for the carnage have been sentenced
despite overwhelming evidence.
Sajjan Kumar
will contest from the newly created
South Delhi
constituency whereas Jagdish Tytler will contest from the
North-East Delhi
constituency.
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 Raising
slogans has its uses; a deeper engagement is however always a
better alternative. Sikhs must understand the paradigm in which
Congress patronises Sikhs' killers and BJP celebrates massacre
of Muslims. Only debrahamanising our understanding of history,
culture, politics and society will provide the answers and the
way forward. |
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In another
connected matter, Jagdish Tytler has been asked to appear in person
on 18 April, by Justice Pandey who was hearing defamation
proceedings in a case filed by advocate H. S. Phoolka, which has
been transferred from
Ludhiana
at the behest of the Supreme Court of India.
Advocate H. S.
Phoolka, spearheading the hunt to bring perpetrators to justice
since the last three decades was visibly angry at the stand of the
Congress. Speaking to WSN, he said, “All regret talk of Rahul Gandhi
was a load of bunkum. Perhaps they were not even crocodile tears.
He was simply taking the Sikhs and all justice-loving people for a
ride.” When asked to explain the rationale of the Congress stand,
the activist-advocate was categorical, “The Congress top brass –Rajiv
Gandhi downwards was responsible for the massacre of the Sikhs. The
present incumbents of the party are afraid of the truth coming out.
Anyone amongst the Sikhs, who had this feeling that there was change
of heart, should now read the writing on the wall. The perpetrators
have proved their own lie. There is no change of heart. They are all
hand in glove.”
As this
development is likely to have an impact on the elections in
Punjab, the
ruling Akali Dal is likely to use it against the Congress candidates
in a big way.
 So
what should the Sikhs do in the forthcoming elections? Will they
throng the AICC headquarters in
Delhi and
protest? Will they advise Sikhs all over the country not to vote for
the Congress?
Can we keep our
self-respect intact and still vote for the Congress? or the BJP?
What will justice-loving people in the country do? Every election
brings forth this dilemma to those who have a conscience to keep in
the country. Let this conscience not be a prisoner. It has to come
out. In the open. Strongly and surely.
Some Sikh groups
have led protests in Delhi against the nomination of Sajjan Kumar
and Tytler, in Punjab the ruling Akali Dal has started to encash the
anti-Congress sentiment, the Sarnas in Delhi will squirm for some
time before resurfacing again, the apologies of Sonia Gandhi and
Manmohan Singh have been rendered meaningless and will no doubt be
repeated again by some other face in the times to come, but the time
for the Sikh community to engage with the deeper politics of all of
this is now. In a system governed by the brahamanical powers, the
society will always have space for the human rights violators. Only
debrahamanising our understanding of history, culture, politics and
society will provide the answers and the way forward.
Raising slogans
has its uses; a deeper engagement is however always a better
alternative.
25 March 2009
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