Home ministry decision to set-up a committee on whether a SIT is required, is merely a delaying and diversionary tactic. It is shocking that the union home ministry has set-up a committee to look into whether a Special Investigation Team (SIT) is required for probing the 1984 riots anti-Sikh riots cases. This amounts to going back on a great step forward taken in this respect by the AAP government in Delhi. It must be recalled that the constitution of an SIT to inquire into the massacre of 1984, has been a long standing demand of the victims and the Sikh community in general. The BJP and the Akali Dal had promised setting up of the SIT in May 2013 at Jantar Mantar. When AAP formed its government in Delhi, it responded to this long standing demand by recommending the constitution of an SIT. All that was required to be done by the home ministry was to notify the recommendation sent by the Arvind Kejriwal government of Delhi for setting-up the SIT on January 30 this year. The AAP had reminded Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 1, about the Delhi government’s recommendation which was pending with the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi since eight months. It is beyond any reasonable understanding as to why the BJP’s central government now requires a committee to find out whether an SIT is required. It is clearly a delaying tactic and raises suspicion on the intentions of the BJP and its ally, the Shiromani Akali Dal. This is no different than the games played by the Congress regimes at various points of times. AAP warns the BJP that the people of Delhi and Punjab shall not tolerate this betrayal of the victims of 1984 massacre. We demand that the government must immediately act on the AAP government’s recommendation and constitute the SIT without any further delay.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 11:48:24 +0000
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