SAD and its ally BJP hit at Congress MPs Partap Singh Bajwa and Ravneet Singh Bittu accusing them of siding with the perpetrators of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
A day after Congress MPs Partap Singh Bajwa and Ravneet Singh Bittu accused Badals of doing politics over 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the ruling SAD and its ally BJP today hit back at the two lawmakers from Punjab accusing them of siding with the perpetrators of the carnage.
In a joint statement, BJP Minister in Badal cabinet Manoranjan Kalia and SAD leader Sewa Singh Sekhwan expressed their "shock and disbelief" that the two MPs from Punjab had "risen in defense of the known killers" of 1984 and instead of demanding exemplary punishment for Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar, they had chosen to target Badals.
They asked the two Congress MPs to visit the families of the riot victims to understand why their pain and tragedy cannot be forgotten till the guilty are brought to book.
The two also asked Leader of Opposition in the Punjab Assembly, Rajidner Kaur Bhattal and state Congress chief Mohinder Singh Kaypee to clarify if they also shared the Bittu-Bajwa stand on the issue.
Bajwa and Bittu had charged the Badals with playing to the gallery and doing politics on those killed in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Meanwhile, three SAD leaders including party MP Naresh Gujral and General Secretaries Prem Singh Chandumajra and Balwinder Singh asked Bajwa and Bittu to stop sidetracking the issue and spell out their stand on the alleged involvement of Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar in anti-Sikh riots.
"They should stop sidetracking the issue and state unequivocally their stand on alleged involvement of Tytler and Kumar in '84 anti-Sikh Carnage," they said in a joint statement here.
"Shiromani Akali Dal has been forcefully raising the issue of ’84 riots for the last 26 years and would continue to do so on every available forum, till Sajjan, Tytler and every perpetrator of the heinous crime, was given exemplary punishment," the SAD leaders said.
They said the "state managed" acquittal of Tytler in a riot case recently must have confirmed one feeling in the minds of Sikhs and Punjabis that justice was not possible till 10 Janpath was pulling the strings of power at the Centre.
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