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D-day for '84 riots accused Tytler
The senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha candidate from the North East Delhi Jagdish Tytler has a big day today as both his personal and political career are at stake, depending on the verdict to be announced by the Karkardooma court in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
The court may decide on whether to accept the CBI’s closure report and order quashing of all charges against Tytler or direct CBI to start fresh investigation into the case.
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If the decision goes against the Tytler, whom CBI has already given clean chit and recommended the court quashing of FIR against Tytler, the Congress already facing flak from the Sikh community will be left with little choice except to withdraw his candidature.
Congress central leadership, on the one hand, seems to realise the party is at the risk of losing Sikh vote in the wake of increasing Sikhs protest and demonstration in Delhi and Punjab, on the other hand, is no position to take a final call on the matter and has adopted a wait and watch approach.
Congress, which has been facing heat of the Sikh anger since the party declared Tytler its Lok Sabha candidate and CBI’s clean chit to the former Union minister later added fuel to the fire, is going under growing pressure to dump Tytler as a Lok Sabha candidate. No official word from the Congress though has come yet. The zenith of Sikhs frenzy reflected in “shoe hurling incident”, which cannot be justified in a civilized society, Tuesday when a Hindi daily correspondent Jarnail Singh chucked a shoe at Union Home Minister P Chidambaram while addressing a press conference.
The party may take a final call Thursday as the Congress president Sonia Gandhi has returned from her campaign in Kerala.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday morning summoned the CBI director seeking an explanation of the circumstances leading to the clean chit given to Tytler. Dr. Singh reportedly wanted the CBI to give him all the details of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.