BJP wants memorial of terrorists’ victims
Category: Current Issues
By Jagmohan Singh
AMRITSAR: With the beginning of construction of memorial in the memory of those Sikhs who were killed while battling with the Indian Army during 1984 Operation Blue Star in the Golden Temple, now the alliance BJP partner of Punjab Government has indirectly sparked controversy.
Controversy came in lime light when BJP firebrand leader and former State Cabinet minister Lakshmi Kanta Chawla raised demand to built memorial in the memory of innocent people of the Hindu Community who were assassinated by terrorists during the peak days of militancy in Punjab.
Chawla in a letter to Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and State BJP President Ashwani Kumar has said that the innocent people who were assassinated had great role to bring peace tranquility in Punjab, hence deserve recognition.
Recalling the incident of mass killing of people from Hindu community, Chawla said that in the year of 1983 many bus passengers were shot dead by terrorists when they were identified as Hindus at Dhilwan town of Punjab near Jallandhar district. She said that Punjab Government should raise memorial for those who were killed during indiscriminate firing at Dhilwan and the names of the all the victims be engraved on memorial.
Adding further she said that all the innocent people who were killed at the hands of terrorists should be brought in record and their names to be mentioned in the memorial since to bring calm in Punjab the blood of innocent people shouldn’t go unnoticed. She said that people of Punjab would extend full moral and financial support to Government when memorial to be raised in the memory of innocent people who had sacrificed their lives in Punjab.
She said that all the innocent people who were killed during turmoil period should be declared martyr besides adequate compensation and other necessary benefits on the part of Punjab Government.
May 23, 2012
ਵਿਸ਼ਾ: 1984, Anti-Sikh, BJP
