Amendment to Jallianwala Bagh Trust Act aimed at targeting Congress, says Aujla

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, February 13

MP Gurjeet Singh Aujla has said that amendment to the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Act 1951 was solely aimed to bar the Indian National Congress (INC) president from becoming its trustee.

In a statement issued here on Wednesday, Aujla said a party, which had no feather in its caps, was trying to erase the names of those who sacrificed generations to win Independence.

He said the INC Lok Sabha members opposed the bill as “it was the Congress in the pre-Independence era that had set up the memorial and the removal of the Congress president as one of the trustees was nothing but politics”. He alleged, “The NDA government is trying to deny the history, an approach they learnt from Adolf Hitler’s Reich.”

He said it is an attack on the history, heritage and culture of the country. “BJP’s agenda is to loot, plunder, erase or destroy the symbols of cultural and historical value so that they may write their own version of history,” he said.

Quoting Shashi Tharoor’s speech, Aujla added that “instead of collectively demanding an apology from the British for the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh at Amritsar, the House, infested by saffron Nazis, are trying to alter the actual history of our country.”