Prove your sincerity: Sukhbir to Kejriwal
Thursday, 30/01/2014
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Chandigarh :SAD president and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, on Wednesday, asked AAP leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to prove the sincerity of his demand for the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into 1984 massacre by refusing to accept support from the guilty Congress party.
“The demand must not appear to be a mere political stunt and must go beyond playing to the gallery,” Sukhbir said in a statement issued here late Wednesday evening.
He said that asking for a probe against the Congress role and accepting support from the same party for staying in power looks a contradiction in itself.
“You can not run with the hare and hunt with the hound. You must take a clear stand and not just play to the gallery. We are very happy that a political ally of the Congress has supported our demand for an SIT, but to keep his credentials clean, the AAP must not have any trucks with the party which is unanimously seen as the guilty party,” the SAD chief expressed.
Sukhbir pointed out that there was no confusion about who the real culprits were. The only issue is to bring them to book. “Even Rahul Gandhi has admitted that the Congressmen were involved in the senseless orgy that followed Indira Gandhi’s assassination,” reminded he.
He also regretted that Kejriwal’s demand had to wait for Rahul Gandhi’s admission of the role of his party in the massacre even though the demand formed a part of the manifesto of the AAP.
“The massacre took place in Delhi where Kejriwal is now the Chief Minister. For an SIT to function in an atmosphere completely free of political interference, Delhi must not have government supported by the Congress. Otherwise the whole purpose of the probe will be lost,” Sukhbir mentioned.
