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While the Congress Party has pretty much settled on Jagdish Tytler as their candidate from the Sadar constituency in Delhi, they’re still waffling on Sajjan Kumar: In Outer Delhi, a Jat-dominated area, the candidature of senior leader Sajjan Kumar has run into trouble with those opposed to him bringing up the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The […]

According to the UK-based 1984 Genocide Coalition, Green MEP Jean Lambert has initiated a motion in the European Parliament on the massacre of Sikhs during the events of 1984, particularly the Indian Army attack on the Golden Temple in June and the Sikh pogroms in November.  The motion states: The European Parliament notes with immense […]

The Congress Party’s central election committee is having trouble naming candidates for seven seats in Delhi in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.  The committee continues to be ruled by Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar, despite their role in the 1984 pogroms against Sikhs.  According to Business Standard: [T]he once-powerful Congress leaders of Delhi, like Jagdish […]

On March 21, 2004, civil libertarian Justice V.M. Tarkunde passed away.  Justice Tarkunde was the founder of the leading organization People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL).  According to Outlook India, among other issues, Justice Tarkunde worked to fight the pogroms of the Sikhs in November 1984: When the anti-Sikh riots shook the country after Mrs […]

This November 01, 2003 article in the Times of India describes the state of some of the victims of the November 1984 anti-Sikh pogroms in Delhi and elsewhere. About 300 of these 1984 victims live in Mohali in housing that was provided to them by the Punjab government. Some quotes from Preetam Singh and his […]

Even as the Nanavati Commission has issued notices against Congress leaders Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler, because evidence demonstrates they participated in the perpetration of the 1984 pogroms against the Sikhs, the Congress party is considering fielding these two people as candidates in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections: Former Outer Delhi Congress member of parliament Sajjan […]

The Nanavati Commission, investigating the pogroms against the Sikhs in November 1984, gave senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler two weeks to reply to affidavits implicating him in the massacres.  The Commission also agreed to the request made by Congress leaders Vasant Sathe and Kamal Nath to adjourn the cross-examination of witnesses until March 8. The […]

Yesterday, at the Darbar Sahib in Amritsar, Punjab, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit claimed that the demands of the victims of the 1984 Sikh pogroms had been met.  After this surprising claim, functionaries at the Darbar Sahib amazingly honored Dikshit with a ‘siropa,’ or saffron cloth.   Dikshit made this claim despite the failure of […]

The Delhi High Court has issued a bailable warrant against Congress (I) leader H.K.L. Bhagat, for his role in the pogroms against the Sikhs in November 1984: On an appeal filed by Darshan Kaur, a riot victim, judge R.S. Sodhi asked Bhagat to appear before the court July 19. Read affidavits filed against Bhagat before […]

ACP Ranbir Singh, who served as SHO Karol Bagh, Delhi, during the November 1984 pogroms against the Sikhs in India, deposed to the Nanavati Commission about Congress leaders intimidating police officers who attempted to arrest the perpetrators of the violence: ACP Ranbir Singh…said the then Congress MP Dharam Dass Shastri and others had come to […]

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