INC Leaders Continue to Protect 1984 Sikh Genocide Perpetrators

Addressing an election rally in Indore on 30 Oct, Panjab INC president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring said, ‘A few people in the state are posing as Sikhs and spreading misinformation. They say Kamal Nath committed atrocities on Sikhs, but I have not heard or seen him do so till date. I think that even Guru Nanak will also not forgive such people.’ The Madhya Pradesh elections are scheduled for 17 Nov. Kamal Nath is the Chief Minister aspirant. When asked why he made the statement, Warring said, ‘There is no FIR against Kamal Nath.’ This is how conveniently politicians escape scrutiny. In the Kamal Nath case, the Nanavati Commission recorded evidence, journalist Sanjay Suri mentioned Nath’s role in the violence at Gurdwara Rakab Ganj in his book 1984: The Anti-Sikh Violence and After and in this interview. Just as Captain Amarinder Singh had once orally exonerated Jagdish Tytler against whom a case is now in progress, now Raja Warring is doing the same for Kamal Nath. Meanwhile, the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, V.K. Saxena, granted approval for the prosecution to file an appeal in the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court's judgment acquitting 12 accused of murder in a 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom-related case. In this case, eight people were killed and one person was injured in West Delhi. Earlier, the High Court cited an inordinate delay of 27 years in filing the appeal and found the grounds presented by the state unjustifiable.