Sangh Parivar conspiracy behind Sikh massacre
Sometimes justice to the victims itself becomes a big injustice meted out to them. Though former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar has been sentenced to life in the Sikh massacre case, there is always an iota of doubt about whether this can indeed be called justice. What more can be a big injustice when compared to the fact that a conspirator of a massacre is alive for 30 years after the incident and that too he was roaming scot free till now? Justice delayed is justice denied. Though Sajjan has been penalised for life, he can still approach the Supreme Court challenging this decision.
He is already 73. Which means one cannot be sure if the person would be alive or not by the time the court takes up the matter for hearing. The constitution that's alive during small skirmishes, tiffs and smaller crimes goes to sleep during massive massacres. Because those who caused trouble and bloodshed during the Sikh massacre are still roaming the streets of this nation free and fine. Not just that, they have also participated in the proceeding clashes and group violence even after that massacre.
Ironically enough, another leader who allegedly was a prominent part of that massacre, is now the CM of Madhya Pradesh. Leaders of Congress have often said the party is deeply pained and disturbed over the Sikh massacre of 1984, why would that same party choose someone who was part of that massacre to lead a state? The leaders owe everyone an answer for this question. Though Congress led the massive killings in this incident, one cannot deny the proactive role of Sangh Parivar in perpetuating the crime even further. The goriness of this lies in the fact that over 14 FIRs have been registered against 49 BJP and RSS leaders from that time.
What's the connection between Indira Gandhi's assassination, and RSS and BJP? Sikh massacre was part of the continued attack on minorities in this country. The enmity between Sikhs and Sangh Parivar is an old one. Arya Samaj always opposed the Sikhs vehemently. We can see the animosity against Sikhs in Dayanand Saraswati's Satyartha Prakashan book. A big chunk of backward community in Punjab had embraced Sikhism. The efforts to bringing them back to their base religion by RSS and Arya Samaj turned violent since it was met with massive resistance. Khalistan movement started around the same time. Indira Gandhi was assassinated. Politician Nanaji Deshmukh had defended the massacre in open terms stating the Sikhs deserved the treatment they got.
More than saying Congress carried out the Sikh genocide, it is better said that racist and communal minds ordered the killings. Indira Gandhi's assassination was just a pretext for them to kill the Sikhs. Subsequently, it was the same mindset did the killings in Mumbai and then in Gujarat killing the innocent Muslims. Let's consider Gujarat genocide for instance. Sangh Parivar played a direct role in it. At the same time we should also remember that Congress and other parties had been silent spectators in this criminal act by being neutral over it. There are leaders within Congress and other secular parties who support killings over cows and mob lynching carried out by Sangh Parivar supporters.
Sangh Parivar gains strength from their silence. To assume that all culprits have been punished with one person being sentenced to life over this crime is foolishness. If the Sikh massacre was made good for, the communal violence in 1992 wouldn't have happened and the Gujarat genocide wouldn't have taken place either. Even the court referred to Gujarat genocide in it's verdict on the 1984 incident. Court was concerned about the culprits being patronized by political parties and this was making it tough to punish them. Odisha, Kandhamal and Gujarat massacres are not any different from Sikh massacre instead they are the continuation of those, the court observed.
Unfortunately all those who masterminded the Gujarat genocide are in cushy posts in the government and are speaking about giving justice to the victims of Sikh massacre. Congress has atleast apologised to the Sikh community over this. But Gujarat government has not even done that. A law that ensures speedy trial and justice to such incidents along with acting as a deterrent to the reputation of such incidents is the need of the hour. That would be the real justice offered to the victims of Sikh massacre.
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NDA sweeps bypolls to four assembly segments in Bihar
Patna (PTI): The ruling NDA in Bihar on Saturday swept the bypolls to four assembly segments, retaining Imamganj and wresting from the INDIA bloc Tarari, Ramgarh and Belaganj, receiving a boost ahead of the assembly elections due next year.
Candidates of the Jan Suraaj, floated recently by former political strategist Prashant Kishor with much fanfare, lost deposits in all but one seat, in a clear indication that the fledgling party, despite claims of taking the political landscape in the state by storm, needs to cover much ground.
The biggest setback for the INDIA bloc, helmed by the RJD, came in Belaganj, a seat the party had been winning since its inception in the 1990s, but this time lost to the JD(U) headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the arch-rival of its founding president Lalu Prasad.
The JD(U) candidate Manorama Devi, a former MLC, defeated by a margin of more than 21,000 votes RJD’s Vishwanath Kumar Singh who made his debut from a seat that fell vacant upon election to Lok Sabha of his father Surendra Prasad Yadav, a multiple term MLA.
The margin of victory was greater than the 17,285 votes polled by Mohd Amjad of Jan Suraaj, whom the RJD may have liked to blame for its defeat by causing a split in Muslim votes.
JD(U) national spokesman Rajiv Ranjan Prasad said, "The people of Bihar deserve kudos for rejecting the negativity of the opposition and reposing their trust in Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Under his leadership, the NDA will win more than 200 seats of the 243-strong assembly in 2025."
The RJD also suffered an embarrassing defeat in Ramgarh, where Prashant Kishor’s prediction of the party “finishing third or fourth” came true. The forecast had caused Sudhakar Singh, son of state RJD president Jagadanand Singh, the MP from Buxar who had won the assembly seat in 2020, to threaten that Jan Suraaj cadres in the constituency will be “beaten up with sticks”.
Singh’s younger brother Ajit finished a distant third after BJP winner Ashok Kumar Singh, a former MLA, and Satish Kumar Singh Yadav who fought on a ticket of the BSP, which has little foothold in Bihar.
Jan Suraaj, though, was hardly a factor in Ramgarh, where its candidate Sushil Kumar Singh polled less than four per cent votes.
The BJP also pulled off a stunning victory in Tarari, which falls under the Arrah Lok Sabha seat, currently represented by CPI(ML)’s Sudama Prasad, who had won the assembly segment for two consecutive terms.
CPI(ML) candidate Raju Yadav lost, by a margin of a little over 10,000 votes, to BJP debutant Vishal Prashant, better known as the son of local strongman Sunil Pandey, who was formerly with the JD(U) and had joined the saffron party a few months ago.
Jan Suraaj had initially announced that it was fielding a former Vice Chief of the Army in Tarari but later disclosed that he could not contest because of technical reasons. Its candidate Kiran Singh got less than four per cent votes.
The most respectable performance from Jan Suraaj came in the reserved Imamganj seat where its candidate Jitendra Paswan stood third, polling well over 20 per cent votes.
The seat, however, went to Deepa Kumari, daughter-in-law of Union minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, who defeated RJD’s Raushan Kumar by a slender margin of less than 6,000 votes.
Manjhi, who heads the Hindustani Awam Morcha, vacated Imamganj earlier this year upon getting elected to Lok Sabha from Gaya.
With the exception of Ashok Singh in Ramgarh, the winners in all the seats shall be making their debut in the state assembly.
