'I don't think the Congress party has learned any lessons from 1984. What can they have learnt when the Sikh victims are still to get justice?'
Since Justice G T Nanavati submitted report to Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil in New Delhi on Wednesday, the Sikh community and opposition parties have been demanding that it be made public.
'Do you allow the guilty to go scot free just because the perpetrators of such heinous crimes were able to protect themselves from the law for 20 years?'
Sikh groups demand that the report should be made public in two weeks.
'All those rumours that were floating around Delhi could not have been the basis of my report,' says Justice G T Nanavati, who probed the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
'I don't speculate. It could have been to please their leaders, also!' Justice G T Nanavati on the anti-Sikh riots.'
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Madan Lal Khurana has sent a letter to party president L K Advani demanding the removal of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to clear the 'taint' on the party due to the Gujarat riots.
Five months after the Central Bureau of Investigation re-opened a murder case in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, a Metropolitan Magistrate court has dismissed the agency's application for original records of the case.
Appealing to the kin of the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots to give it a chance to heal their wounds, the centre on Friday said the recommendations of the Nanavati commission would be implemented as soon as possible.
He said the cabinet secretary had brought to Rajiv Gandhi's notice the deterioration in situation in the capital and asked him whether they could invoke his authority to call the army.
The government on Monday rubbished charges made by the NDA that the Nanavati commission report on the 1984 anti-sikh riots was an "eye-wash".
The national capital witnessed the worst riots in last three decades this week, with allegations of police acting as mute spectators when angry mobs ran riot on the streets of northeast Delhi.
The BJP warned if the government did not table the report in the beginning of second half of the Budget session it will not allow the House to function smoothly.
Despite his acquittal in three cases relating to the 1984 riots, he could never get over the stigma following serious allegations that he had led mobs in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi's assassination in 1984.
"The report has been finalised and it will be submitted to the Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil on Wednesday," commission sources said.
The BJP leader from Bihar sought to compare his defeat in Kishanganj LS seat to that of Congress' Buta Singh after the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
SAD president Prakash Singh Badal said the appointment of Tytler as a minister of state with independent charge in the Manmohan Singh government shows the Congress' indifference towards Punjab and Sikhs.
Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray on Wednesday said that late Zail Singh, while he was the President, had expressed gratitude to him for saving the lives of members of the Sikh community in Mumbai.
A United States court has ordered Congress President Sonia Gandhi to provide a copy of her passport as documentary evidence by April 7 to determine if she was in America in September last year when a Sikh rights group claims it had served summons on her in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
SC has held the state liable for its failure to protect the life and liberty of citizens.
Director Shivaji Lotan Patil does no justice to the story.
AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal also challenged the BJP to announce its chief ministerial candidate by 1 pm Wednesday and said he is ready for a public debate with him.
In his book Arun Bhatnagar, a retired IAS officer, makes a dig at Hardeep Singh Puri, former diplomat, Union minister and BJP nominee from Amritsar Lok Sabha seat, for Rajiv's faulty Sri Lankan policy, writes Rasheed Kidwai.
Shivraj Patil said the Congress leaders were not at fault for the riots of '84.
'Sikhs can never forget how RSS activists protected them during the partition and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots,' Tarlochan Singh said.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi will move a United States court in New York seeking dismissal of a human rights violation lawsuit filed against her by a Sikh advocacy group and will urge the court to prevent it from filing further cases on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in America.
Director Sashi Kumar on his film, Kaya Tharan.
The former Congress leader had sought more time, till January 30, to surrender saying he has to settle family affairs related to children and property and also needs time to file appeal in the Supreme Court against the high court verdict.
Its president Kirpal Singh Badungar said the verdict may cause the Sikh community to lose faith in the courts.
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