Shiromani Akali Dal MP from Bathinda and Union Minister of Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Tuesday appealed to the Centre to immediately release Rs5 lakh compensation to the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots as decided one month back.
“I have met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh thrice in the last two months to press for the demand as the entire Sikh community had welcomed the announcement of the compensation and wanted it to be distributed amongst the victims at the earliest,” said Harsimrat.
She added that she had urged the Home Minister to expedite the implementation of the decision besides taking next series of steps to ensure justice to the victims of the 1984 carnage and bring a closure to their sufferings.
Harsimrat said, “Now that voting process had been completed in Jammu & Kashmir as well as Jharkhand, the time is appropriate to disperse the compensation before the Election Commission announces code of conduct for Delhi polls.”
Meanwhile, she also demanded “daily hearing of cases to expedite justice for Delhi riot victims”.
Referring to a recent sting operation, SAD MP said that it was revealed that various SHOs of the worst hit areas in Delhi admitted that they had failed to act as a force and even acted in connivance with the then Congress Government to give a free run to those who murdered and even burnt Sikhs alive.
“A separate enquiry should be constituted to probe the police-politician nexus in the riots,” she said.