Chandigarh, January 29, 2014: The SAD President and Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir SIngh Badal said here today that the AAP leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal must establish his credibility on probing the Congress-engineered and government-sponsored massacre of Sikhs in 1984 by dissociating himself from the party widely held guilty of the heinous crime.
“An SIT to probe the inhuman 1984 massacre of Sikhs formed by a government that depends on the Congress for its very survival will have no credibility. You cannot depend on killers’ support to punish the same killers. And you cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hound. Kejriwal must end this contradiction of being friends with criminals and sympathsing with their victims at the same time,” said Sukhbir Singh Badal in a statement here.
The SAD president also said that an SIT formed by the Supreme Court alone can have carry any conviction with the people. “Everyone is well aware that no justice could be expected from any agency that is formed, monitored and controlled by a Congress government or a Congress-supported regime. People have a right to expect the AAP leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to prove the sincerity of his demand for the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into 1984 massacre by refusing to accept support from the guilty Congress party”, he said.
"In the absence of this, the demand for an SIT will appear to be a mere political stunt. Kejriwal must go beyond playing to the gallery on an issue of such grave sensitivity, " said Sukhbir Singh Badal in a statement here .The SAD president said that he saw a serious contradiction between asking for a probe against the killers belonging to the Congress while at the same time accepting support from the same party to stay in power.
Badal asked Kejriwal to take a clear stand on the issue and not just reduce an extremely sensitive matter to a mere political stunt, which it will remain as long as the AAP government depended on Congress for its very survival.
Sukhbir Singh further said that even for an SIT formed by court to succeed, it will have to depend on inputs from the government machinery in Delhi. If that machinery is a puppet of the Congress, how can it be expected to cooperate with the court in conducting an honest probe against the Congress goons.
Badal pointed out that there was no doubt in anyone’s mind about the identity of the killers and about the party which supported and sponsored them. These culprits have been roaming the corridors of power in Delhi for so many decades now. If Kejriwal still allows them to remain stake-holders in these corridors, he cannot expect to be trusted on the sincerity of his demand.
"Now, even Rahul Gandhi has had to openly admit that Congressmen were involved in the brutal and senseless dance of death and destruction in the streets of the national capital in 1984.After this confession, is Kejriwal still in doubt about the credentials of the party whose support he enjoys ?Can he still honestly expect his government to be allowed to move against these Congressmen. The whole idea seems so unrealistic and weird.”
"The massacre took place in Delhi where Kejriwal is now the Chief Minister. For an SIT to function in an atmosphere completely free of political interference, Delhi must not have government supported by the Congress. Otherwise the whole purpose of the probe will be lost”, he said.
Badal said that while his party and the SAD-BJP government in Punjab welcome Kejriwal's intentions, "We only want the exercise to look and be genuine. Otherwise, even the victims may not have the confidence to come forward and depose against the criminals as they would still be controlling the reigns of government in Delhi.”// punjab news live, punjab news online, punjab news, punjab news headlines, punjab breaking news, india news, punjab news, world news,