World Sikh News strongly con­demns the use of the agony of No­vem­ber 1984 vic­tims in elec­tion­eer­ing by Naren­dra Modi, Amit Shah and Delhi-based Sikh lead­ers and ac­tivists.

Why does it not shame Naren­dra Modi -Prime Min­is­ter In­dia, who has been in power for 5 long years, whose party has been in power ear­lier too to tell the peo­ple of Pun­jab dur­ing the elec­tions that “we as­sure jus­tice to the Sikh vic­tims of 1984”.

Lis­ten­ing to Amit Shah –the Bharatiya Janta Party chief talk­ing about 1984 brought more anger than re­lief.

It is in­trigu­ing that both the Bharatiya Janta Party and the No­vem­ber 1984 rights cham­pion Harvin­der Singh Phoolka should give a state­ment about the in­volve­ment of the PMO –the Prime Min­is­ter’s Of­fice of Ra­jiv Gandhi in the No­vem­ber 1984 tragedy on the same day, nearly at the same time. Every Sikh knows that, even if every In­dian does not.

Hu­man rights cham­pion Harvin­der Singh Phoolka should coach the Sikhs about the uni­ver­sal­ity of a pogrom and how should cit­i­zens fight it.  Pun­jab needs to be told about Mod­i’s Mus­lim killing spree in Gu­jarat. In­di­a’s PMO and Gu­jrat’s CMO are cul­prits num­ber one in this dan­ger­ous game of geno­cide.

Adopt­ing a se­lec­tive ap­proach is sin. Phoolka needs to tell loudly and un­mis­tak­ably to all po­lit­i­cal par­ties that do­ing pol­i­tics in the name of Sikh wid­ows is a shame­ful prac­tice and both should stop it. Or is it that Phoolka sound­ing pro-BJP a pre­cur­sor to some­thing in the off­ing?

It is com­fort­ing to note that the In­dian me­dia has noted that of all the states of In­dia, it is only Pun­jab which does not have the Modi-wave and there are no vis­i­ble Modi-bhakts –diehard lovers of Modi and Mod­ism.

It is dis­gust­ing, though not sur­pris­ing that the Pres­i­dent of the Delhi Sikh Gur­d­wara Man­age­ment Com­mit­tee and BJP MLA in the Delhi As­sem­bly –Man­jin­der Singh Sirsa, along with Tar­lochan Singh –the for­mer aide of Gi­ani Zail Singh, re­ha­bil­i­tated as chair­per­son of the Na­tional Mi­nori­ties Com­mis­sion and then as Ra­jya Sabha Mem­ber Par­lia­ment, but whose in­glo­ri­ous past can­not be wished away, have the gump­tion to ap­peal to the Sikhs to vote for Naren­dra Modi. This brings in­stant re­minders of the ad­jec­tive “toad­ies” so eas­ily used by Bhai Sahib Sir­dar Ka­pur Singh to de­scribe such-like lead­ers of the yes­ter­years.

It is re­ally sad that af­ter tak­ing a tough stand and even os­ten­si­bly an­noy­ing his can­di­date son Par­min­der Singh Dhindsa, vet­eran Akali leader Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, should be­tray his con­science and urge peo­ple to elect Modi. In a press meet, these lead­ers tell us that the Modi gov­ern­ment has abol­ished the black­list of Sikhs. Is that a rea­son for joy? The In­dia state made the list, made life dif­fi­cult for hun­dreds of Di­as­pora Sikhs and now they have abol­ished the list. Do­ing jus­tice in an old case is no favour, is­n’t it?

These three lead­ers are ex­pect­ing that the new Modi gov­ern­ment will re­lease Sikh pris­on­ers un­mind­ful of the fact that this gov­ern­ment has com­mit­ted many hu­man rights vi­o­la­tions against the Sikh youth.

Sukhbir Singh Badal very clev­erly man­aged to oust Man­jit Singh GK out of the pres­i­dency of DS­GMC and man­aged to in­stall Man­jin­der Singh Sirsa as the Pres­i­dent. Now like all the above lead­ers, Man­jit Singh GK is also us­ing the Trilokpuri judge­ment of the Supreme Court of In­dia to gain re-en­try into Sikh pol­i­tics of Delhi.

The vic­tim fam­i­lies of No­vem­ber 1984 must man­age their own lives at their ear­li­est. Oth­er­wise, vul­tures are wait­ing to pounce!