Thursday, May 10, 2012

A dangerous cult.

In March 2011, a group called Sikhs for Justice filed a case against the Congress Party in a New York court holding it responsible for the massacre of Sikhs after the murder of Mrs Indira Gandhi in 1984 after failing to find justice in India for 27 years. On May 9, 2012 lawyers for the Congress argued that the court had no jurisdiction over the Congress. Judge Robert Sweet noted that the Congress had only challenged the court's jurisdiction to hear the case and not filed any defence on the merits of the allegations against it. HT online, May 10. The reason the Congress cannot deny the allegations is because witnesses to the carnage are still alive and willing to testify despite threats, false charges of crime and offers of money and land. Jagdish Kaur, who saw her husband set alight, says she saw local Congress MP, Sajjan Kumar telling a mob in Hindi," Not a single Sardar ( Sikh ) should survive. Kill these Sardars, they have killed our Mother ( Indira Gandhi )." When she approached the local police station to report the murder of her husband the police officer told her," Are you in your senses? The people, whose names you have mentioned are so powerful, where will you hide the rest of your family?" From 1984 to 2000, 10 commissions were set up to investigate the charges. Of these, the Jain-Bannerjee Committee in 1987 found sufficient evidence against Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar, the Patti-Rosha Committee of 1990 found against Tytler and Kumar while the Narula Committee of 1993 found against Kumar, Tytler and HKL Bhagat. Yet no one was held responsible for the terrible massacres as Delhi Police, no doubt for fear of the Congress, could find no records of the crimes. All police diaries of the days of riots, between October 31-November 3, are blank except for 2 complaints against Sikhs for assembling with kirpans ( swords ). Lawyer for the witnesses, HS Phoolka says," Whenever it came to commissions of inquiry, Sajjan Kumar's name appeared prominently, but whenever it went to the police, his name disappeared." Finally, in January 2010 the CBI framed charges against Sajjan Kumar including murder and rioting with deadly weapons. Whether this was to preempt the filing of the case in New York we do not know. The threats against the witnesses became so dire that the CBI arranged for Punjab Police to provide armed guards to protect them from Delhi Police. The frightening thing is that the Congress is not just a family dictatorship, like the Mubaraks and the Assads, but a dangerous cult, like Aum Shinrikyo or Branch Davidians, where one family is worshiped as divine. Kumar obviously saw Indira Gandhi as a Goddess and was enraged. This cult worship is why the government is trying to free the 2 Italian marines who shot our fishermen. That is why Quattrochi was able to coolly leave India in 1993 even though the CBI was investigating the Bofors deal since 1990 and the evidence against Quattrochi was conclusive. Dangerous cults end in disaster and so will the Congress. Problem is what damage it will do to the country.

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