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Cong fields tainted officer Amod
Kanth, Badals mum
WSN Network
New Delhi:
Myopia is the characteristic strain of Punjab's ruling Badals who
have patented the Akali Dal in their name. After shamelessly
declaring that "our two party candidates will fight on BJP symbol",
the entire Akali Dal thrust in Delhi elections remained on stressing
that any victory for Avtar Singh Hit will be nothing less than a
"Revolution".
Akali Dal's spin
masters chose to use the capitalised "Revolution" probably to make
it look bigger than the French one, but in such trivialisation of
community issues, the Akali Dal did not even utter a word against a
pawn of the Indian establishment, the tainted police officer Amod
Kanth, who was honored by New Delhi with a President's medal even
when he is widely believed to have defended the killers of Sikhs in
1984 massacres.
Ironically, it
was an independent candidate Ajit Singh Siddha, refused ticket by
the Congress party, who drew a lot of sympathy from Sikhs of Delhi,
particularly the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh massacres who see in
him a renewed hope.
Punjab's media
missed Amod Kanth's candidature altogether.
Siddha is
fighting from the Tilak Vihar constituency of west
Delhi where many
Sikhs had stopped taking any interest in politics and some had lost
faith in the justice dispensing machinery.
The Congress is
the target of ire of most Sikh voters in this area, particularly
because it chose to field Amod Kanth.
No wonder Akalis
were fighting for Hit, against accused of working to frustrate the
wheels of justice for the massacre victims. The same Congress which
backed Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar and H.K.L. Bhagat this time
backs Amod Kanth, and the same Badal who had kept mum earlier
discovers more virtues of silence because the alliance partner BJP
at this stage will not want to do anything to speak against such
national heroes as Kanth. (Visit www.WorldSikhNews.com for more
details)
3 December
2008
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