Jagdish Tytler named AICC delegate, BJP fires ‘Nafrat ki dukan’ salvo
Aditi Tandon
New Delhi, February 20
The BJP on Monday questioned the Congress for electing Jagdish Tytler, whose title was a part of the Nanavati Fee report on 1984 anti-Sikh riots, as an AICC delegate who will attend the upcoming Congress Plenary at Raipur.
“That is Congress Social gathering’s store of hatred (nafrat ki dukan).The chief who unfold most hatred on the top of anti-Sikh riots has been made an AICC delegate. It might not be flawed to say that such leaders kind the spinal twine of the Congress,” BJP spokesperson Gauvan Bhatia mentioned.
He mentioned Tytler was additionally a part of the Congress leaders who oversaw preparations when Rahul Gandhi’s “Bharat Todo Yatra” arrived in Delhi.
“This solely exhibits Rahul Gandhi and Jagdish Tytler are two our bodies, however one soul,” Bhatia mentioned.
AICC delegates might be amongst 1,500 leaders to attend the AICC plenary in Raipur between February 24 and 26.
Tytler is the second prime Congress chief suspected for his position in 1984 riots after Sajjan Kumar, who stands convicted for all times and is serving jail time for his involvement within the riots.
Within the Tytler case, the CBI had filed three closure stories in 2007, 2009 and 2014.
However Delhi’s Karkardooma courts rejected the CBI closure report on December 4, 2015, on the protest petition by Lakhwinder Kaur, who misplaced her husband within the Gurdwara Pul Bangash assault.
The court docket requested the CBI to proceed its probe.
Earlier, CBI had reopened three circumstances of anti-Sikh riots on the orders of Nanavati Fee in 2005. These have been – Delhi Cantonment case during which Sajjan Kumar has been convicted as we speak; Sultanpuri killings during which witness Cham Kaur not too long ago recognized Sajjan Kumar; Bara Hindu Rao killings during which former Congress MP Jagdish Tytler is accused and the case is underway.
In October 2021 Congress chief Sonia Gandhi had appointed Jagdish Tytler, a suspect within the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, as one of many 37 everlasting invitees to the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee. Tytler has been named alongside leaders like former Delhi Congress chief JP Agarwal, former AICC common Secretary organisation Janardan Dwivedi and former ministers Kapil Sibal, Ajay Maken and Krishna Tirath.