Sukhbir Singh Badal con­tin­ues to shed croc­o­dile tears and ser­monises Pun­jab CM Capt. Amarinder Singh on be­ing a bad Sikh, as he con­tin­ues to give a clean chit to the Gand­his and the Ka­mal Naths for their hand in the No­vem­ber 1984 anti-Sikh car­nage. It dou­bly hurts.

The Shi­ro­mani Akali Dal has a new found love for the vic­tims and the vic­tim fam­i­lies of No­vem­ber 1984. The pub­lic dis­play of this started with the slap­ping of the con­vict Yash­pal Singh by Delhi MLA and DS­GMC gen­eral sec­re­tary Man­jin­der Singh Sirsa in the Pa­tiala House Courts. This was fol­lowed by the de­fence of this act by DS­GMC pres­i­dent Man­jit Singh GK. Shi­ro­mani Akali Dal Pres­i­dent Sukhbir Singh Badal and his wife and Mem­ber Par­lia­ment Har­sim­rat Kaur Badal roared on TV that “Shi­ro­mani Akali Dal Badal has been pur­su­ing cases of No­vem­ber 1984 killings since the last 34 years.” The de­fac­ing of the statue of Ra­jiv Gandhi is a new ad­di­tion to the list.

Ire over No­vem­ber 1984 is im­per­a­tive but po­lit­i­cal show­cas­ing is down­right in­hu­man.  Two ma­jor judge­ments in 34 years is not an oc­ca­sion to take credit but a cause for con­cern and shame for the party which claims that it has been pur­su­ing cases all these three decades.

“The Wall of Truth in Delhi is wail­ing to wit­ness the truth of Sikh and In­dian lead­ers. Croc­o­dile tears will not help Sukhbir Singh Badal and his ilk to win over the Sikhs.”

Can any­thing more be fur­ther from truth? Does Sukhbir Singh Badal or even the DS­GMC pres­i­dent have ex­act sta­tis­tics of the num­ber of Sikhs killed in No­vem­ber 1984, apart from the of­fi­cial sta­tis­tic of 2733 killed given out by the Ran­ganath Mishra Com­mis­sion?

To­day, as one can see in Teena Kaur Pas­richa’s doc­u­men­tary, “When the Sun did not rise?”, can the Badal party tell us how many of the Sikh youth in Tilak Na­gar and other ar­eas are drug abusers and who is re­spon­si­ble for that? What has the Shi­ro­mani Akali Dal (Badal) done re­gard­ing this in the past and what is it do­ing now? What is any­body do­ing now? Does it not shame Sukhbir Singh Badal, his party lead­er­ship in Delhi and the Sikhs in gen­eral that we have a colony which is called a Wid­ows Colony? Have we not be­come ut­terly shame­less?

Hun­dreds of cheques meant for wid­ows are al­lowed to lapse every month as the poor wid­ows can­not make it to Gur­d­wara Bangla Sahib from far off Sul­tan­puri, Kalyan­puri and trans-Ya­muna ar­eas?Has Sukhbir Singh Badal’s party ever done an au­dit of how the doles are given to the wid­ows of No­vem­ber 1984? How many wid­ows col­lect the doles? What does DS­GMC do when the poor wid­ows -par­tic­u­larly those of them who are still poor to even col­lect the doles and ra­tions from Gur­d­wara Bangla Sahib do not visit to col­lect their monthly dues?

“How many speeches and in­ter­ven­tions were made by Shi­ro­mani Akali Dal Badal mem­bers of Par­lia­ment on the No­vem­ber 1984 killings in the last 34 years?”

Sukhbir Singh Badal’s nar­ra­tion that his party pur­sued No­vem­ber 1984 case in Par­lia­ment is a bla­tant lie un­less per­sua­sion means a men­tion. How many speeches and in­ter­ven­tions were made by Shi­ro­mani Akali Dal Badal mem­bers of Par­lia­ment on the No­vem­ber 1984 killings in the last 34 years?

For Sukhbir Singh Badal to say that his party has taken up this is­sue on the in­ter­na­tional front is a gross lie and an abuse of the po­si­tion that he is in.

Sukhbir Singh Badal and his party first used the 1984 judge­ment con­vict­ing Yash­pal Singh and oth­ers and then the Saj­jan Ku­mar judege­ment to re­gain foothold within the com­mu­nity. It can­not be more crass and de­plorable than this.

The Con­gress party lead­er­ship metic­u­lously planned the killing of Sikhs on the draw­ing board. The sec­ond and third level lead­er­ship of the In­dian Na­tional Con­gress party or­ches­trated and car­ried out the Sikh killings through in­cite­ment, goad­ing and pa­tron­age of lumpens in Delhi, which were their vote bank.

The lead­er­ship of the Bharatiya Janata Party save some ho­n­ourable ex­cep­tions like Ram Jeth­malani ac­qui­esced in the Con­gress game and at many places par­tic­i­pated in the killings of the Sikhs. Sukhbir Singh Badal’s ally the Bharatiya Janata Party was also re­spon­si­ble. The doc­u­men­ta­tion of the role of the RSS dur­ing the car­nage is slowly see­ing the light of the day.

The Wall of Truth in Delhi is wail­ing to wit­ness the truth of Sikh and In­dian lead­ers. Croc­o­dile tears will not help Sukhbir Singh Badal and his ilk to win over the Sikhs.