PPCC chief differs with home minister on 1984 riots

Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Captain Amarinder Singh today said he was not in agreement with Union Home Minister P Chidambrams advice to Sikhs about 1984 riots that they should forget,forgive and move on.

Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Captain Amarinder Singh today said he was not in agreement with Union Home Minister P Chidambrams advice to Sikhs about 1984 riots that they should forget,forgive and move on.

So many people have been killed and they must get justice and the guilty must not go unpunished, he told reporters after meeting party workers from the Assembly segments of Jalandhar Cantonment,Adampur and Phillaur.

He asked how Sikhs can forget such a recent happening when they have not forgotten 18th centurys Ghallughara (holocaust) where 1000s of Sikhs were killed by Mughal rulers.

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Chidambram had commented recently at a function which was organised by some Sikhs in Delhi to thank him for removing the names of over 140 Sikhs from black list.

While flaying Haryana government for flouting the law by constructing a concrete wall along the Gaggar,he also rapped Akali-BJP government in Punjab for its criminal negligence for letting Haryana to start the work.

He pointed out that the matter was sub-judice and Haryana must wait for the decision of the court.

The Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee chief said by constructing the concrete wall along the Gaggar,several villages in Punjab will be submerged as the flood waters will not have outlet once the wall is constructed and these will inundate the villages.

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