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CHANDIGARH, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh today reiterated that the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and the Aam Aadmi Party were playing cheap politics in blaming Congress general secretary and in charge for Punjab, Mr Kamal Nath for something he had no role in.
“Public perception should be based on truth and not the myth”, Capt Amarinder remarked while replying to a question, during a press conference, that there was a public perception about his alleged involvement in 1984 riots.
He made it categorically clear that the Congress party was not going to be cowed down by the fake and fictitious allegations against its leaders by people like Kejriwal, Badal or Phoolka, when they had been exonerated by respected and honourable judges like Justice Rangnath Mishra and Justice Nanavati. “Will Phoolka, Badal and Kejriwal decide who is guilty and who is not?” he asked, adding “we won’t let them sit on judgement like that on the eve of elections”.
The PCC president said, Phoolka and his patron Kejriwal have mastered the art of mud-slinging and leveling false allegations against people and then trying to get away with everything. “There has to be a stop to it and we will call their bluff”, he asserted.
He said, Mr Kamal Nath’s name was deliberately dragged by HS Phoolka into the controversy in 2006, but he was exonerated by the Justice Nanavati Commission, which had been constituted by the BJP led NDA government to probe into the anti-Sikh riots
Earlier, Capt Amarinder added, Justice Rangnath Mishra Commission made no mention of Mr Nath about his alleged involvement in the riots.
Giving details, the PCC president said, the riots started on October 31. He said, next day he went to Delhi and met the victims for four days till November 4, when it was the Gurparab. He said, all through these four days he met the victims and nobody ever named Mr Nath, while the victims named HKL Bhagat, Dharam Dass Shastri, Lalit Maken, Arjan Dass and Sajjan Kumar. He asked, why would the victims not name him if he was involved?
Capt Amarinder said, Mr Phoolka produced two witnesses Mukhtiar Singh and Ajaib Singh before the Nanavati Commission in 2006, after 22 years of the riots. Besides, Sanjay Suri, a journalist also presented himself before the Nanavati Commission. But the versions of Mukhtiar Sigh and Ajaib Singh contradicted with that of Suri and Nanavati Commission, constituted by the BJP led NDA government, exonerated him.
The former Chief Minister said, Mr Kamal Nath was the General Secretary in charge of Delhi in 1998 when Ms Shiela Dixit formed the government. The local bodies were also swept by the Congress under Mr Kamal Nath’s stewardship. This could not be possible without the support of Sikhs. No Sikh in Delhi ever complained against him, except Mr Phoolka who has his own axe to grind, he said.
Referring to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s criticism of Mr Kamal Nath, Capt Amarinder said, it was characteristic of his double standards and double face. “Till now, never did Mr Badal, or any Akali leader, doubt Mr Kamal Nath’s credentials, rather he always enjoyed a bonhomie with him and also defended him and now certainly he has woken up to the charges that he was involved in anti-Sikh riots”, he observed, while adding, when Mr Nath was a minister, Mr Badal was a frequent visitor to his office (photograph attached). What makes Mr Badal to accuse Mr Nath of involvement in riots, now, he asked.
