Channi Sidhu should explain Tytler being named permanent invitee to Delhi Cong committee BJP
Chandigarh Oct 30 PTI BJP leader Tarun Chugh on Saturday asked Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and Congress state unit chief Navjot Singh Sidhu to clarify if they have endorsed naming Jagdish Tytler as a permanent invitee to the Delhi Congress new executive committeeThe Aam Aadmi Party AAP and the Shiromani Akali Dal SAD also lodged a strong protest over the issueTytlers name had earlier figured in connection with the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 In a statement issued here BJP national general secretary Chugh said Tytler has been named as one of the key Congress leaders in Delhi but he Kamal Nath and Sajjan Kumar continue to be the blue-eyed boys of the party in spite of the fact that their role in the riots against Sikhs has been always highlighted by many witnesses Sidhu had confessed that he barely escaped the anti-Sikh riots in 1984 and now he feels proud of being a leader of the Congress he saidChugh said Sikh leaders including Channi and Sidhu owe an explanation to the people of Punjab for being part of the Congress AAP MLA Baljinder Kaur also asked Channi and Sidhu to clarify their standIn a joint statement Kaur and party spokesperson Manwinder Singh Giaspura said that the Congress has not done justice to the Sikhs but when will it stop rubbing salt into the wounds of the 1984 massacreThis decision of the Congress high command has once again exposed the mindset of the Congress about the 1984 massacre anti-Sikh riots Giaspura saidIt is clear that the Congress can never give justice to the Sikhs although the people of Punjab believed in the Congress many times after 1984 But the Congress has always betrayed the Sikhs and the Punjabis the AAP spokesperson said The AAP leaders said that Channi and Sidhu along with all Congress leaders should explain their stand on the honour bestowed on Tytler SAD leader Daljit Singh Cheema asked the Punjab chief minister to tell Punjabis why he gave his consent for the appointment of Tytler to a prestigious Congress panel He said that such acts amounted to sprinkling salt on the festering wounds of the Sikh communityIt is even more shocking that the chief minister has not objected to the appointment till now Cheema saidThis proves that Channi does not have any moral courage and is even ready to sell off the interests of the Sikh community as well as Punjabis at large to save his chair Punjabis will not forget this betrayal he said Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur also strongly objected to the Congress partys moveIt is an act that has hurt the sentiments of Sikhs she said in a statementShe also questioned the Congress appointment of Tytler as the partys permanent inviteeAhead of the civic body polls in the national capital early next year theDelhi Congress on Thursday got its new executive committee Congress national general secretary KC Venugopal in a statement had said Congress president Sonia Gandhi has approved the formation of the executive committee The list of permanent invitees included senior leaders JP Agarwal Ajay Maken Kapil Sibal Janardan Dwivedi Arvinder Singh Lovely Subhash Chopra and Tytler PTI CHS VSD ANB ANB
Chandigarh Oct 30 PTI BJP leader Tarun Chugh on Saturday asked Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and Congress state unit chief Navjot Singh Sidhu to clarify if they have endorsed naming Jagdish Tytler as a permanent invitee to the Delhi Congress new executive committeeThe Aam Aadmi Party AAP and the Shiromani Akali Dal SAD also lodged a strong protest over the issueTytlers name had earlier figured in connection with the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 In a statement issued here BJP national general secretary Chugh said Tytler has been named as one of the key Congress leaders in Delhi but he Kamal Nath and Sajjan Kumar continue to be the blue-eyed boys of the party in spite of the fact that their role in the riots against Sikhs has been always highlighted by many witnesses Sidhu had confessed that he barely escaped the anti-Sikh riots in 1984 and now he feels proud of being a leader of the Congress he saidChugh said Sikh leaders including Channi and Sidhu owe an explanation to the people of Punjab for being part of the Congress AAP MLA Baljinder Kaur also asked Channi and Sidhu to clarify their standIn a joint statement Kaur and party spokesperson Manwinder Singh Giaspura said that the Congress has not done justice to the Sikhs but when will it stop rubbing salt into the wounds of the 1984 massacreThis decision of the Congress high command has once again exposed the mindset of the Congress about the 1984 massacre anti-Sikh riots Giaspura saidIt is clear that the Congress can never give justice to the Sikhs although the people of Punjab believed in the Congress many times after 1984 But the Congress has always betrayed the Sikhs and the Punjabis the AAP spokesperson said The AAP leaders said that Channi and Sidhu along with all Congress leaders should explain their stand on the honour bestowed on Tytler SAD leader Daljit Singh Cheema asked the Punjab chief minister to tell Punjabis why he gave his consent for the appointment of Tytler to a prestigious Congress panel He said that such acts amounted to sprinkling salt on the festering wounds of the Sikh communityIt is even more shocking that the chief minister has not objected to the appointment till now Cheema saidThis proves that Channi does not have any moral courage and is even ready to sell off the interests of the Sikh community as well as Punjabis at large to save his chair Punjabis will not forget this betrayal he said Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur also strongly objected to the Congress partys moveIt is an act that has hurt the sentiments of Sikhs she said in a statementShe also questioned the Congress appointment of Tytler as the partys permanent inviteeAhead of the civic body polls in the national capital early next year theDelhi Congress on Thursday got its new executive committee Congress national general secretary KC Venugopal in a statement had said Congress president Sonia Gandhi has approved the formation of the executive committee The list of permanent invitees included senior leaders JP Agarwal Ajay Maken Kapil Sibal Janardan Dwivedi Arvinder Singh Lovely Subhash Chopra and Tytler PTI CHS VSD ANB ANB
