Cas­ti­gat­ing Pun­jab Chief Min­is­ter Cap­tain Amarinder Singh for rub­bing salt on Sikh wounds, Dal Khalsa has trashed his ob­nox­ious claim that the then newly in­stalled Prime Min­is­ter of In­dia -Ra­jiv Gandhi, had no role to play in the or­gan­ised pogrom of Sikhs in Delhi and other parts of In­dia. Amarinder’s al­ibi that he was away to Ben­gal is noth­ing but bunkum, read the Dal Khalsa state­ment.

DAL KHALSA chas­tised the gov­ern­ment of Pun­jab for ob­serv­ing the death an­niver­sary of Akali Dal leader Harc­hand Singh Lon­gowal and of for­mer In­dian Prime Min­is­ter Ra­jiv Gandhi and re­marked that while the for­mer was a trai­tor of the Sikh com­mu­nity, the lat­ter was a killer of the Sikhs.

Party spokesper­son Kan­war Pal Singh, in a state­ment is­sued here to­day, said that the No­vem­ber 1984 pogrom against the Sikhs was state-spon­sored and was car­ried out in a fully cal­i­brated and con­spir­a­to­r­ial man­ner with un­de­ni­able and proven com­plic­ity of the lead­ers, the ad­min­is­tra­tion and the po­lice. “Who can for­get that the killings and may­hem hap­pened in No­vem­ber 1984 soon af­ter Ra­jiv Gandhi was un­de­mo­c­ra­t­i­cally sworn in as the Prime Min­is­ter of the coun­try, along with four cab­i­net col­leagues on 31 Oc­to­ber 1984 at 6.45 pm.

Quot­ing for­mer pres­i­dent Pranab Mukher­jee from his book “The Tur­bu­lent Years 1980-1996”, Kan­war Pal Singh said that Ra­jiv ar­rived at the hos­pi­tal at 3.15 pm on 31^st Oc­to­ber be­fore the of­fi­cial an­nounce­ment of the death of Mrs In­dira Gandhi. De­spite so much of out­rage and anger against Sikhs, not a sin­gle death has been re­ported be­fore Ra­jiv was sworn in as Prime Min­is­ter.

“A per­son of Ra­jiv Gand­hi’s stature does­n’t need to be phys­i­cally pre­sent to en­gi­neer the killings of thou­sands of Sikhs,” he pointed out.

Not only killings of Sikhs, but he also had a huge hand in the killing of Tamils in Sri Lanka too, said Kan­war Pal Singh.

He said it is a pity that Cap­tain Amarinder Singh was de­fend­ing mass mur­der­ers.  “Trag­i­cally, the Pun­jab CM has al­ways placed his loy­alty to­wards the Gandhi fam­ily above that of the com­mu­nity,” rued Kan­war Pal Singh.

“If the United Na­tions in­ter­venes for a cred­i­ble probe into the No­vem­ber 1984 geno­ci­dal at­tacks, then it is prob­a­ble that the truth of the in­volve­ment of Ra­jiv Gandhi, Narasimha Rao and other Con­gress party lead­ers will come to the fore,” said the Dal Khalsa state­ment.

Hoshiarpur, 20 Au­gust 2019