Sikhs in Jharkhand protest Congress tickets to 1984 riots accused

April 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar, named in the 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases, should have themselves withdrawn their election candidature before the Congress asked them do so after pressure from the Sikh community, says veteran journalist and novelist Khushwant Singh. 'I was hoping that they would withdraw from the polls themselves instead of waiting for the Congress to give in to pressure by the Sikhs.

April 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee Saturday said he had objected to the nomination of Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar as Congress candidates for the Lok Sabha polls when the issue of the 1984 ani-Sikh riots again came to the fore. 'I had objected when the issue came to the fore.

April 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Not mollified by the Congress party dropping Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar as party candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, many Sikhs are demanding the prosecution of the two for their alleged involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. 'This is not a victory.

April 9th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The Congress move to drop Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar as its Lok Sabha poll candidates over their alleged involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots Thursday drew sharp reactions from leaders in Punjab, the only Sikh majority state in India. Ruling Akali Dal president and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal said the 'much belated cancellation of tickets of butchers of thousands of Sikhs was direct acceptance of guilt by (the) Congress of their active role in organising the riots'.

April 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress would take a decision on Jagdish Tytler's Lok Sabha candidature after 'serious deliberations', the party's spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said Thursday after a court postponed its ruling on a case involving Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. 'Any decision on such issues is taken after serious deliberations,' Singhvi said.

April 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Thousands of Sikhs Thursday protested outside a Delhi court that is scheduled to decide on the case of Congress leader Jagdish Tytler's involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had a week ago given a clean chit to Tytler in the case of leading mobs during the riots that followed the assassination of prime minister Indira Gandhi.

April 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday said that denying the Lok Sabha poll tickets to Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar would not solve the 1984 riots case, and demanded trial of the two Congress leaders for their alleged involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh violence. The Congress dropped Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar as its Lok Sabha candidates in the wake of protests by Sikh groups.

April 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The way was wrong but the issue was right, journalist Jarnail Singh said Tuesday after hurling a shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram as an expression of 'deep anguish' over the clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

April 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Praising Delhi journalist Jarnail Singh for his 'courage and bravery' in hurling a shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram during a press conference, Sikh political party Shiromani Akali Dal Tuesday announced a cash reward of Rs.200,000 for him.

April 5th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Upset over clean chit by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, various Sikh organisations Sunday called for a protest outside the residence of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi Tuesday. Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of Sikh religion located inside the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar, has asked Sikhs to join the protest outside 10 Janpath, the residence of Gandhi.

April 5th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Upset over clean chit by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, various Sikh organisations Sunday called for a protest outside the residence of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi Tuesday. Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of Sikh religion located inside the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar, has asked Sikhs to join the protest outside 10 Janpath, the residence of Gandhi.

April 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Kakardooma Court will today consider the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) final investigation report on former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler's involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. On March 28, the CBI filed the report in a sealed envelope before Metropolitan Magistrate Ram Lal Meena.

April 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress' Lok Sabha candidate Jagdish Tytler was Thursday cleared by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a case registered against him for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi, prompting protests by upset Sikhs outside the court. De-sealing its final report in the case in a court here, the CBI pleaded that the case against Tytler, the Congress' candidate from the Delhi North East constituency, be cancelled.

April 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Deeply upset over the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) giving a clean chit to Jagdish Tytler in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, many Sikhs here said it was timed to help Tytler, the Congress candidate from Delhi Northeast, with the Lok Sabha elections in mind. They said their faith in the probe agency has been eroded.

April 2nd, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The Sikh community in Punjab Thursday voiced its disappointment over the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, a senior Congress leader quit the party and other leaders condemned the CBI move. Former Punjab assembly deputy speaker and former Congress legislator Bir Devinder Singh resigned from the primary membership of the Congress party, saying he could not be associated with a party which was siding with perpetrators of violence against Sikhs in 1984.