New Delhi:
The controversies across the loss of life of 1984 Sikh riots convict Sajjan Kumar have claimed three new victims — this time on the other aspect of the political spectrum. A couple of days after Congress chief Deepender Hooda was intensely criticised by his social gathering colleagues for praising the controversial determine, three BJP MPs have now come below hearth for visiting his home to supply condolences.
Sajjan Kumar, 80, died earlier this month whereas serving his life sentence for killing 5 males through the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The previous Congress chief had been affected by well being points resembling hypertension and Parkinson’s illness. Some Haryana Congress leaders, together with Hooda, have been fast to condole his loss of life, and have been chastised owing to Kumar’s chequered previous and the upcoming Punjab Meeting elections.
BJP chief Nitin Nabin has summoned the three MPs – Ramvir Bidhuri, Yogender Chandoliya, and Kamaljeet Sehrawat.
“They should not have gone,” he stated.
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Who Was Sajjan Kumar?
Sajjan Kumar was a former Congress MP.
He grew to become a Lok Sabha MP in 1980, successful the election from the Outer Delhi constituency on a Congress ticket. Even after the 1984 riots, he was elected twice on Congress tickets – in 1991 and 2004.
In 2010, he was charged with homicide, rioting, legal conspiracy, and inciting violence through the riots. Witnesses claimed he had given inflammatory speeches and offered rioters with Rs 100 and liquor.
In 2018, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for his function within the 1984 riots. In 2025, a Delhi court docket convicted him in a second case for instigating and collaborating within the homicide of Jaswant Singh and his son, Tarundeep Singh, on November 1, 1984.
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Even after his loss of life, he stays a deeply controversial subject in Sikh-dominated Punjab.
It is because of this that a number of Congress leaders, together with former chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi, slammed Hooda.
The BJP was not far behind in slamming Kumar and Hooda. The visits of the three MPs, nonetheless, have offered the social gathering’s political opponents a possibility to focus on it.
“Now the true face of the BJP has additionally come to the fore. On the event of Sajjan Kumar’s closing bhog, three BJP Members of Parliament have been current. These included West Delhi MP Kamaljeet Sehrawat, South Delhi MP Rambir Singh Bidhuri, and Northwest Delhi MP Yogender Chandolia,” stated AAP chief Baltej Pannu.
Delhi AAP chief Saurabh Bhardwaj additionally took a swipe on the BJP, saying the hearts of the three MPs beat for the riot convict.
“The hearts of BJP MPs Kamaljeet Sehrawat, Yogendra Chandolia, and Ramvir Singh Bidhuri nonetheless beat for convicted 1984 Sikh riots killer Sajjan Kumar,” he wrote on X.
BJP chief HS Phoolka, who fought an extended authorized battle over the Sikh riots case, condemned the go to of the MPs to Kumar’s home.
“Strongly condemn the go to of three MPs Kamaljeet Sehrawat, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, and Yogender Chandolia to mass assassin Sajjan Kumar’s residence to supply condolences on his loss of life. That is when the BJP has at all times supported our quest for justice in opposition to these culprits and supported us in making certain that he stays in jail. Sympathy ought to be reserved for victims and their families-many of whom stay the horror of these days even until now. I name for the boycott of those 3 MPs,” he wrote on the social media platform.
