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Life after Tytler and Sajjan Kumar’s resignation – Can Congress and Manmohan Singh survive Left and NDA pressure?
It is over but the real struggle has not started even. Tytler and Sajjan Kumar the mothers of tint in Nanavati Commission Report on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots resigned to pacify the country with a hope that Sonia and her Congress party can survive. But what will happen now? The BJP-led NDA kept up pressure on the Manmohan Singh government to take immediate action against all those indicted by the Nanavati Commission despite resignation of Jagdish Tytler as Union Minister.
Political think tanks believe that Congress will shift focus quickly to BJP on Gujrat. Many victims of the 2002 riots in Gujarat have deposed before a inquiry commission headed by the same Nanavati and named BJP and VHP leaders as having led the mobs.
‘‘The Congress is wrong in trashing the report and giving a clean chit to its accused leaders. But the BJP is in no position to preach. There is so much evidence against its own leaders in Gujarat riots. Has the Modi government arrested them? Even petty leaders are roaming free. They don’t fear police,’’ says Gulzar who deposed before the commission.
Riot victims feel the BJP government in Gujarat has not made any efforts to trace and arrest the culprits even after reminders from the Supreme Court. The say the government is even trying to steer and influence the inquiry committee.
‘‘Does the BJP have a stand on this issue? Do they have the moral right to protest like this?’’ asks Zakia Jafri, ailing widow of former MP Ehsan Jafri, who was killed in the Gulbarg Society massacre.
Congress now hopes that the focus can shift on BJP and Gujarat riot quickly.
Earlier the congress leaders put heavy pressure on Sonia to get the taints resign fast. According to media reports, Senior Congress MP Sajjan Kumar, who was indicted by the Nanavati Commission Report on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, on Thursday has resigned as the chairman of Delhi Rural Development Board.
Kumar, who represents the outer Delhi Lok Sabha constituency, would meet Chief Minister Sheila Dixit to hand over the resignation at around noon, sources said.
His resignation comes a day after Congress leader Jagdish Tytler stepped down as Union Minister for NRI Affairs following his indictment by the Nanavati Commission.
The board, which has a corpus fund of Rs 100 crore, was set up last year with Kumar at the helm.
The Nanavati Commission that probed the Delhi carnage had recommended examination of six cases against Kumar, which were closed as untraced.
Noting that there is "credible material" against Kumar for "recording a finding" that he and another Congress leader Balwan Khokhar were "probably involved as alleged by witnesses," it said in these particular cases no chargesheets were filed.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had on Wednesday promised in the Lok Sabha that government would take steps for "reopening and re-examining" specific cases referred in the probe report.
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