Youth Akali Dal activists resent ‘anti-Sikh’ policies of Congress

Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, November 1

Activists of the Youth Akali Dal (YAD), led by senior party leaders Gurdeep Singh Gosha and Prabhjot Singh Dhaliwal, today burnt effigies of Congress leaders Jagdish Tytler, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi to express their resentment against the alleged anti-Sikh policies of the Congress.

‘CM should have cleared stand’

Condemning Chief Minister Channi for his silence on the issue, YAD leaders Gurdeep Singh Gosha and Prabhjot Singh Dhaliwal said Channi should have cleared his stand on yet another attack on the Sikh community. “The Chief Minister’s silence on the anti-Sikh decision of his party leadership shows that he loves his chair (power) more than his own community,” they said.

The YAD leaders said by nominating Jagdish Tytler — a prime accused in 1984 massacre of Sikhs — as a permanent invitee to the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee, the Congress leadership had once again proved its overt support to indiscriminate killing of Sikhs during the 1984 riots in Delhi and elsewhere in the country.

Gosha said the wounds of the 1984 massacre are still fresh in the minds of thousands of Sikh families who had suffered immense losses during the anti-Sikh riots and rather than tendering an apology to the Sikh community for its acts of omission and commission during 1984, the Congress had chosen to sprinkle salt on the wounds of the Sikhs.

Condemning Chief Minister Channi for his silence on the issue, the YAD leaders said Channi should have cleared his stand on yet another attack on the Sikh community. “The Chief Minister’s silence on the anti-Sikh decision of his party leadership shows that he loves his chair (power) more than his own community,” said Gosha and Dhaaliwal.

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