NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday lashed out on the Congress for electing Jagdish Tytler as an AICC delegate, saying the transfer reveals there’s a “pathological dislike for Sikhs” within the grand previous celebration’s DNA. Alleging that Tytler was concerned within the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the AAP additionally demanded that the Congress take steps to deliver him to justice, as an alternative of rewarding him with promotions within the celebration.
The Arvind Kejriwal-led celebration termed the inclusion of Tytler’s title on the checklist of the AICC delegates as ‘disgusting and low cost’ and demanded his title be eliminated ‘with instant impact’.
The AAP’s response got here after the Delhi Congress launched an inventory of the elected AICC members which included Tytler’s title.
“With another promotion for Jagdish Tytler, Congress’ message for Sikhs is clear – that it will continue to indulge in a brazen display of insensitivity towards Sikhs. Like I said earlier, a pathological dislike for Sikhs is in Congress’ DNA,” AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha, who can be celebration’s spokesperson, mentioned in a tweet.
The title of Tytler, as soon as a formidable chief of the Congress in Delhi, had figured in a report of the Nanavati Commission which probed into the anti-Sikh riots.
Slamming the Congress’ transfer, AAP MLA Jarnail Singh mentioned, “On the one hand Rahul Gandhi says he has come to open Mobabbat Ki Dukaan (shop of love) and on the other hand the Congress indulges in such cheap and disgusting activity by making the main accused an AICC delegate.”
With Tytler’s election as AICC delegate, there’s a lot anger ‘among the many Sikh and different communities’ throughout the nation, the Tilak Nagar MLA mentioned.
“Expel Tytler from this committee with immediate effect and take action to bring him to justice,” Singh mentioned.
The AAP chief additionally took on the BJP and accused it of not doing something to deliver the perpetrators of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots to justice.Â
After coming to energy on the Centre in 2014, the BJP-led authorities ‘hurriedly’ arrange an SIT to probe the 1984 riots, he mentioned.
“People believed that justice could finally be served. The SIT also promised to bring the killers to justice within a year, but nearly 10 years since then, we are yet to see any progress,” the AAP MLA mentioned.
“We request the BJP-led Central government to deliver justice to the victims of the 1984 riots and bring the murderers to their end instead of conspiring with them,” he added.
