Pm’s Remarks On ’84 Riots Shocking: Badal

[Azaad]

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today described as "unbelievable, shocking and most painful" Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement on anti-Sikh riots made at a press conference yesterday. The Prime Minister had stated, “The issue cannot be kept alive forever. Certain people want to keep the 1984 anti-Sikh riot issue alive just for apnee dukaan chamkane ke liye (for their selfish interests)”.

Badal also said the Prime Minister should not have added insult to the injury of tragic victims by saying that they were trying to politicise their grief. "This is really heartless and shocking in the extreme and I can not believe that the Prime Minister can be so insensitive to the horrendous tragedy of thousands of hapless Sikh men, women and children. Clearly, he has been forced to make this statement under pressure from 10 Janpath," Badal said in a statement.

The Chief Minister said Sikhs would forget the massacre the day justice was done and the guilty punished.

Describing the Prime Minister's statement as “an insult not only to the Sikh wounds but to the process of justice in the country,” the Chief Minster said, "This must be the only instance in world history of a lawfully appointed head of a government openly standing up in defence of killers, rapists and looters of thousands of defenceless innocents, seeking that the case against them should be closed and forgotten even before the judiciary has pronounced its final verdict on the issue."

The Chief Minister said Dr Singh's statement had further confirmed the impression that the Prime Minister was “not the master of his own conscience” and his statements were made under pressure from the Congress high command, represented by the Nehru-Gandhi family.

Victims only seeking justice: Bir Devinder

Congress-turned-SAD leader Bir Devinder Singh today said the statement of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday giving advice to victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots not to drag the issue and move on, was most unfortunate and deplorable.

In a statement here, Bir Devinder claimed that riot-affected families had all along been looking towards improvement of justice delivery system which, unfortunately, remained notoriously slow even when there was a Sikh Prime Minister. The SAD leader said it was unfortunate and shameful when the Prime Minister had chosen to attack the efforts of those who were working relentlessly for getting justice for the poor wards of the victims of the 1984 riots as running shops.

Bir Devinder said the families did expect, justifiably, that at least those who were widely perceived to have perpetrated the genocide of Sikhs in Delhi and elsewhere in the country and squarely responsible for their misfortune should be brought to justice rather than provided shelter and protective umbrella by the Gandhi family.

[Harmeet_Singh]

Hes one to talk!

[BA51NGH]

exactly what itought lol

[Azaad]

loll

[njjassa]

i ll be really surprised if i saw a video of a news showing PM himself saying those words....badal is just badal... he is master of words ....sure hes the one to talk now...

[Azaad]

There is a video bhaji..saw it on Star News Channel myself!! Was surprised myself when he said it but it was kind of obvious he would. He wanted to counter the claim by Badal and BJP that Congress was an Anti- Sikh party.

[njjassa]

sounds interesting .... still wondering why wudn badal tolerate PM as a sikh rather than a Congress member.....as if we all werent harnessed by this hatred ism already....

[Azaad]

because he cant see anyone else apart from himself getting credit for anything...comes down to hankar at the end of the day!!