NEW DELHI: BJP president Nitin Nabin Saturday reprimanded three Delhi MPs – Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, Yogender Chandolia and Kamaljeet Sehrawat – for visiting the residence of anti-Sikh riot convict Sajjan Kumar, who died Aug 20, to pay their condolences.The transfer comes amid the social gathering’s preparations for the Punjab meeting elections.Kumar was a serving life sentence in two circumstances for his position within the 1984 riots and died of sickness at 80 years of age.BJP sources mentioned the three MPs have been summoned to fulfill Nabin. “It was a transgression. They usually have been conveyed so,” a supply mentioned.The three MPs signify in Lok Sabha part of Delhi the place the residual affect of Kumar, who was an MP from erstwhile outer Delhi, stays.This might need prompted them to pay their condolences in particular person, although BJP has been unsparing in its assault on Kumar for his position within the 1984 riots and the social gathering’s govt at Centre has labored for making certain justice for victims, blaming earlier Congress govts of intentionally hampering probe and trial on account of its affiliation with a key accused like Kumar.
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Advocate H S Phoolka, who has fought circumstances for riot victims for many years and is in BJP, demanded that these MPs be boycotted for visiting the residence of the “mass assassin”.“This comes when BJP has at all times supported our quest for justice towards this offender and supported us in making certain that he stays in jail. Sympathy ought to be reserved for victims and their households – a lot of whom reside the horror of these days even until now,” he mentioned.He additionally lauded Nabin for chiding the three MPs and upholding the social gathering’s decades-long stand.BJP had just lately criticised Congress MP Deepinder Singh Hooda for his tribute to Kumar, however the go to by their MPs gave political rivals, together with Punjab’s governing social gathering AAP, a possibility to focus on the social gathering over the difficulty.
