Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal today strongly reiterated that the widespread massacre of Sikhs in Delhi and some other parts of the country in November 1984 was “most certainly a genocide of the community in vast numbers.”Reacting to the Ontario parliament’s decision to treat the 1984 massacre as a “genocide”, Mr Badal said , “ We are indeed grateful to the authorities and the people of Ontario for this very touching gesture of compassion and solidarity. They have called this shameful chapter by its right name and they deserve our thanks. Every Indian, except those guilty of this tragedy, regards it as a genocide” said Mr Badal.The former Deputy Chief Minister also requested the Government of India to formally acknowledge this shameful massacre of Sikhs as “ a brutal genocide.”There is no doubt about this in anyone’s mind that the Congress planned and executed a genocide of the Sikhs in 1984.
Senior leaders of that party holding top positions in the government of India actively facilitated, directed and even participated in this gruesome genocide. Orders for this genocide had come from the very top in the government.The entire world was shocked when the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi publicly justified this inhuman genocide as “a natural reaction to the falling of a big tree ( Mrs Indira Gandhi’s assassination.) Another Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh later had to apologise for this to the nation,” said Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal in a statement here.Sukhbir Singh said that the Sikhs as a community and all right thinking people in the country and across the world are grateful to the members of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) who had courageously come out in the streets during this genocide to stand by and save their Sikh brethren against dangerous and armed criminals and killers. “ We now request the Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji to apply balm to the deep wounds of the Sikh community by personally intervening to ensure that the guilty of this genocide are not allowed to go Scott-free any longer, ” said Mr Badal.