BJP Members of Parliament Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, Yogender Chandolia and Kamaljeet Sehrawat have been summoned and pulled up by occasion nationwide president Nitin Nabin on Friday for attending the bhog ceremony of former Congress chief Sajjan Kumar and providing condolences on his loss of life.
The motion comes lower than six months forward of the 2027 Punjab Meeting elections, with the BJP apparently eager to keep away from annoying the Sikh citizens within the state.
Sajjan Kumar was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment within the anti-Sikh riot circumstances of 1984.
Extremely positioned sources within the occasion stated Nitin Nabin summoned and reprimanded the three Lok Sabha MPs from Delhi and advised them that they need to not have visited Kumar’s residence. All three have reportedly been requested to elucidate their conduct.
Nabin’s motion got here after senior occasion chief in Punjab HS Phoolka, who has lengthy represented the households of anti-Sikh riot survivors of their arduous authorized battle for justice, publicly condemned the MPs’ go to to Kumar’s residence in Peeragarhi, Delhi, on Thursday.
“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,” stated Phoolka, who joined the BJP in April this yr.
He stated the go to by the MPs was significantly condemnable on condition that the BJP had persistently supported the anti-Sikh riot survivors’ quest for justice and stood by the sufferer households in making certain that Sajjan Kumar remained in jail.
“Sympathy must be reserved for victims and their households, a lot of whom proceed to stay with the horrors of these days,” he stated, whereas additionally calling for a boycott of the three MPs.
BJP nationwide spokesperson RP Singh stated the three MPs had visited Sajjan Kumar’s home of their private capability and never as representatives of the occasion.
The Lok Sabha constituencies represented by Bidhuri (South Delhi), Sehrawat (West Delhi) and Chandolia (North West Delhi) have been carved out of the erstwhile Outer Delhi constituency, which Sajjan Kumar represented within the Lok Sabha as a Congress chief. The three MPs belong to the identical influential group that Kumar represented.
Even after his loss of life, Kumar stays a deeply controversial determine in Sikh-dominated Punjab. For this reason a number of Congress leaders, together with former Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, criticised Rohtak MP Deepender Hooda and others for praising the controversial chief.
Delhi AAP chief Saurabh Bhardwaj additionally took a swipe on the BJP, saying that the three MPs nonetheless sympathised with the riot convict.
“The hearts of BJP MPs Kamaljeet Sehrawat, Yogender Chandolia and Ramvir Singh Bidhuri nonetheless beat for convicted 1984 Sikh riots killer Sajjan Kumar,” he wrote on X.
