Dal Khalsa chief Harpal Singh Cheema in a press state­ment has ex­pressed grief over the loss of hu­man lives in a grenade Bomb blast at Ni­rankari Bha­van near Am­rit­sar. 

Ad­mit­ting that they were clue­less about the jus­ti­fi­ca­tion of the at­tack by the per­pe­tra­tors, he said that there is more to it than meets the eye af­ter a 34-year Sikh-Ni­rankari hia­tus.

“The gov­ern­ment, the po­lice and in­ves­tiga­tive agen­cies should probe this at­tack with­out any prej­u­dice and with­out look­ing at it from the prism of Sikh-Ni­rankari clash of 1978.

Till the iden­tity of the at­tack­ers is not as­cer­tained, the mo­tive be­hind the at­tack will re­main du­bi­ous and all lead­ers of all par­ties must re­frain from ac­cu­sa­tions and slan­der.

He de­plored the ir­re­spon­si­ble re­port­ing by the elec­tronic me­dia on the in­ci­dent.

Mean­while the Pun­jab CM has handed over the probe to the Na­tional In­ves­ti­ga­tion Agency and also re­fused to ac­cuse any one as re­spon­si­ble for the in­ci­dent till in­ves­ti­ga­tion is com­plete. Jogin­der Kaur, the head of the Pun­jab unit of the Sant Ni­rankari Mis­sion has stated that, “we have no en­mity with the Sikhs.”

Am­rit­sar, 19 No­vem­ber 2018, WSN News Bu­reau