Wheel of justice yet to turn against Nath: Phoolka

New Delhi, December 13

Aam Aadmi Party leader and Supreme Court lawyer HS Phoolka today claimed that there was strong evidence of Congress leader Kamal Nath’s involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. He said the wheel of justice was yet to turn against Nath.

“It is unfortunate that (Congress president) Rahul Gandhi has chosen a man who was involved in the 1984 riots as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh,” Phoolka said.

The senior advocate, who has been representing riot victims in court cases, had earlier this year said that instead of punishing leaders involved in the riots, the Congress had elevated and promoted them. “They were made ministers and given plum posts,” he had said.

Meanwhile, Delhi BJP spokesperson Tajinder Singh Bagga claimed that the Congress was aware of Nath’s involvement in the riots and that was why he was “removed” as the party’s Punjab incharge before the 2017 Assembly elections.

He said Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh should register his protest against the party’s decision to pick Nath as the Madhya Pradesh CM and resign if Rahul Gandhi did not relent.

Punjab AAP MLA Kanwar Sandhu said Nath was yet to come clean on the charges levelled against him. Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa alleged that Nath had a hand in the anti-Sikh riots.

“Whenever the Gandhi family comes to power, it protects the perpetrators of the 1984 riots. Now, Rahul Gandhi and the Gandhi family are rewarding Kamal Nath as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh,” Sirsa told reporters. — PTI

Opposition takes on Congress

• Chandigarh: Opposition parties in Punjab have hit out at the Congress for picking Kamal Nath for the post of Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
• The SAD and AAP alleged that Nath was involved in the 1984 riots. Ahead of the state Assembly polls, Nath was appointed incharge of the state Congress, but after AAP and SAD objected, he was replaced with Asha Kumari.
• Leader of Opposition Harpal Cheema stated that Nath’s name had figured prominently in probe reports, but no action had been taken against him.
• In a separate press release, AAP MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira said there was enough evidence against Nath to prosecute him, but all these years he was saved by the Congress.
• SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia said the Congress had always rewarded “anti-Sikh” leaders such as Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler with plum posts.
• SGPC spokesperson Diljit Singh Bedi said Nath was the key Congress leader who incited the mob to kill Sikhs. The Congress decision to select him as MP Chief Minister will have adverse consequences, he said. TNS