NEW DELHI: Eminent speakers at a meeting held on the occasion of the “eighth anniversary of November 1984 killings and carnage” here recently said they have lost all hopes that this Government will ever bring the guilty to book. The meeting was organized by the Sikh Forum.
“Asking the Government to punish the guilty is like flogging a dead horse,” said Patwant Singh, a journalist. In an age when global reconciliation is taking place, with the Israelis willing to talk with their arch rivals, the Arabs, when the South African Government is holding talks with the African National Congress, there is no justice in India.
The only option left is to approach international human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Asia watch, Patwant Singh said. “We have to use our imagination and mobilize worldwide opinion on this. Only that may have an effect on this insensitive and corrupt Congress Government.”
Former chief justice of the Punjab and Haryana high court, Justice R.S Narula, said nothing will be done as long as this Government lasts. There is one kind of justice for those with the Government and another for others. Despite there being evidence against Outer Delhi Congress MP Sajjan Kumar, the Home Ministry is sitting on the file.
Former prime minister of Chandra Shekhar said the riots which broke out after the assassination of Indira Gandhi in November 1984 could have been easily stopped. Without specifically referring to the question of punishment of the guilty behind the riots, the former prime minister said the problem in Punjab could have been checked had the Center held talks with the Akali and other outfits at the time of the passing of the Anandpur Sahib resolution.
Rajinder Puri, journalist, said the Justice Thakkar Commission, which probed the assassination of Indira Gandhi, had clearly concluded that the “needle of suspicion pointed to R.K. Dhawan.”
Article extracted from this publication >> November 27, 1992
