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Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar meet their nemesis
Submitted by rajrishi on Thu, 09/04/2009 - 20:45

A furore of protest had erupted since Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar were nominated by the Congress party to contest elections for two parliamentary seats in Delhi.  While Jadish Tytler was to contest from the New Delhi constituency, Sajjan Kumar was nominated for Northeast Delhi seat. 

Sikhs in Delhi and Punjab backed by Shiromani Akali Dal and its political ally Bhartiya Janata Party had started demanding the cancellation of their nomination in view of their alleged role in the 1984 roits that occurred as a consequence of the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. 

These two leaders won the last parliamentary elections from city with wide margins and they were expected to repeat their success this time as well. But the Congress High Command thought about the repercussions their nomination in Panjab and Jammu besides of course Delhi. 

 At stake are 17 parliamentary seats in Punjab and Jammu region alone where the waves of protest were turning to tides with every passing day. The protests by the Sikhs reached their dramatic high when Jarnail Singh, a journalist working with the Daily Jagaran, hurled a shoe at Home Minister P Chidambram when he was addressing a press conference in Delhi. 

The shoe-throwing incident made a serious impact on the thinking of the Congress party in Delhi and it went into huddle to reconsider its decision to field these candidates.  Mrs Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were out of Delhi. They put their stamp of approval on the cancellation of their candidature as soon as they came back to the city to day. 

 Just a symbolic act of protest by the   hurling of a shoe has changed the political scenario in Delhi. These two leaders  acquitted by the CBI, it seems have been held guilty and punished by Janata Ki Adalat.

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Guest wrote Jagdish Tytler is being politically victimized at 03:46:25 PM on August 21, 2009

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Dear Friends: First and foremost of all that has been written or said it is essential to draw attention to the fact that the Anti-Sikh Riots of 1984 was a catastrophic aberration, an earthquake that shook, mangled and tortured millions of people, not only in India but nearly the whole world. The Riots of 1984 will go down in history as the most shameful, disgraceful and most dishonorable event that happened in a tolerance oriented, peace-loving and democratic country. The perpetrators of the atrocities that occurred in 1984 must be punished, irrespective of the position and power they hold, for they are the people who have wounded India with their innate selfishness and hatred for their fellow countrymen; and if found guilty of this crime against humanity, they must be given the utmost penalty by the law of India. Jagdish Tytler For the past twenty-odd years I have been living under a kind of eclipse, which has never moved away. This darkness that has come over me has over-shadowed my work for the Sikh community which has remained unseen. It is on record that I am the one person, who, inspite of the huge propaganda against me, has ceaselessly worked for the rehabilitation of the widows, the families and the Gurudwaras who had been affected by the riots. I can proudly say that I have slowly and steadily brought them back to shape, giving jobs to the children of victimized widows, and gave them protection through Police Stations. This not verbal – all these actions are on record and can be proved. Even today, I openly challenge anyone, be they even a Sikh gentleman/lady to come forward with proofs to show that I am wrong and am a culprit, I would like to emphatically say and acknowledge my guilt, and receive their judgement with sincerity and take the biggest penalty that law of India can offer.

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