PUNJAB Deputy CM hails SC observation on Tytler

Chandigarh, July 12, 2013: The Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today hailed the refusal of the Supreme Court to stay proceedings on framing of charges on murder and rioting against Congress leader Jadish Tytler, one of the key men believed to have orchestrated the bloodiest massacre in free India’s history.

In a statement here, the Chief Minister said, “It  is  only just, right and fair that the apex court has taken note of the criminal 30-year long  delay in the delivery of justice and relief  to the victims of the of the 1984 massacre of innocent Sikhs and punishment to the  goons and their patrons in high positions of power at that time. If the government of the day has any conscience, it should read the message in the observation of the apex court highlighting the three decade long wait for justice. For these three decades, the guilty have not only been roaming the streets of Delhi proudly but have even been elevated to the highest portals of power.  It is already past high time that the Congress heeded the call from the highest seat of judicial authority in the country.”

The Shiromani Akali Dal president and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal was even more direct and severe on the Congress-led UPA government on the issue. In his reaction, Sukhbir Singh Badal said, “The SC refusal to stay proceedings against Tytler and its observations on the delay in brining the guilty to book are a resounding slap on face of those who have been misusing positions of power in the UPA to shield the guilty. What worse damnation of a government’s deliberate attempts to shield the guilty can there be than that the highest court of the land should express deep anguish over and disapproval of the willful delay in punishing those responsible for the massacre of innocent Sikhs in November 1984.

The Deputy CM said that the  Congress-led UPA government lacks the moral courage to  move against the guilty as the entire tragedy was scripted and enacted the instance of the most powerful people in the Congress at that time. The Congress should heed the SC warning and stop rubbing salt into the wounds of the innocent victims by protecting the guilty through misuse of authority. The massacre remains the darkest blot on the conscience of the nation, but does the Congress have a conscience, he asked. The answer is a positive ‘no’,” said the Deputy Chief Minister.