By Special Correspondent
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler Monday sent a legal notice to a host of Shiromani Akali Dal leaders including Harsimrat Kaur Badal alleging that they made ‘false, malicious and defamatory’ statement against him. He demanded ‘unequivocal’, and ‘unconditional’ written apology from them.
Congress leader Tytler, whose political career has been embroiled in the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots, sent the notice through a law firm to Akali leaders including former minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, MP Balwinder Singh Bhunder, Prem Singh Chandu Majra, S Manjit Singh, MP Naresh Gujaral and others. He said Akali leaders misled the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh by making “baseless, blatantly false and derogatory allegations against him and producing the alleged video clips which are completely false, manipulated, doctored, distorted and morphed”.
They attempted very lowly tricks to drag his name once again to accuse him of being involved in the 1984 Sikh riots only with a motive to gain political mileage, he added.
Claiming his innocence, Tytler said 11 Commissions were constituted about the 1984 Sikh Riots but no affidavit was filed by anyone affected by the riots.
However, under the Justice Nanavati, the twelfth commission recorded two affidavits against Tytler which accused his involvement in the riots that had been allegedly engineered after the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her bodyguards who happened to be Sikh.
Sikh riots, which killed more than 5,000 people, has been called a blot on India as all those big fish involved in this bloodbath were got scot free.