Amritsar, Punjab: Dal Khalsa has termed the recommendations of Justice (Retd.) GP Mathur Panel to constitute SIT to re-investigate 237 cases related to Nov 1984 carnage as another ploy to mislead the Sikhs and to further prolong the already unending wait for justice.
Dal Khalsa spokesperson Kanwar Pal Singh while talking with the media blamed all pro-India political parties, may it be Congress, BJP or AAP for doing trade over Sikh pain and innocent deaths. The reaction came when two Sikh scholars – Dr. Gurdarshan Singh Dhillon and S. Gurtej Singh IAS, who have initiated a move to float a Sikh political party in Punjab, extended their support to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and praised Arvind Kejriwal led AAP government (now dissolved) in Delhi for being “sensitive” to the issue of November 1984 Sikh massacre and for recommending SIT to “reinvestigate” cases related to the massacre. Dr. Dhillon, along with S. Gurtej Singh and former Punjab DGP Shashi Kant had issued a written release urging the Sikh voters of Delhi to support Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi Assembly Elections.
No hope to get justice under Indian Justice System: Dal Khalsa
Dal Khalsa leader Kanwar Pal Singh minced no words in saying that all hopes to get justice from Indian justice system has died in the last 30 years. The only little hope left was UN sponsored international investigation on the same pattern as is being done in the cases of atrocities committed by Sri Lankan government on Tamil population few year back.
Dal Khalsa leader Kanwar Pal Singh Bittu and others
Commenting on the Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal urging the Prime Minister Narendar Modi to take an immediate call on the recommendations of Justice Mathur Panel, he said Shiromani Akali Dal was no exception as it was also contesting the Delhi elections by riding on the shoulders of its alliance partner the BJP. “Badals too want to reap political mileage out of it”. The timing of the leaked report and subsequent letter by Badal indicates that both BJP-SAD were desperate to woo maximum Sikh votes.
In the past 9 commissions and committees were formed to probe the killings. Nothing came out of it. All were sham”, he said and added that question was of intentions and sincerity and that’s missing in these political parties and the governments they had formed time to time.
Dal Khalsa reiterated that who-so-ever forms the next government in Delhi whether its BJP or AAP, Sikhs should not be in any illusion that they would get justice. He said elections only change the face of the ruler, the political and justice system that has failed the Sikh people would remain the same.