New Delhi, December 17
The BJP and the Shiromani Akali Dal today launched a broadside against the Congress after the conviction of Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 riots case and questioned the party for picking Kamal Nath as the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, saying that Sikhs considered him “culpable” in the violence.
BJP national president Amit Shah alleged that there was no doubt of the complicity of the Congress and claimed that its “leaders and workers went on the rampage, raising provocative slogans and murdering men in cold blood”.
Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley welcomed the conviction and hit out at the opposition party for choosing Nath. He dubbed Sajjan Kumar a symbol of the anti-Sikh “genocide” and said the country had never seen murders on a bigger scale than this.
His Cabinet colleague, Prakash Javadekar, said the conviction was a jolt for the Congress. He demanded action against Nath for his alleged involvement in the riots. — PTI
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