New Delhi: Amid opposition demands for
immediately bringing to book culprits of the 1984 anti-Sikh
riots, Government on Wednesday described the incident as "one of the
most tragic events" and assured Lok Sabha that it would do its
best under the given circumstances.
"Everyone of us feels ashamed that this happened. ...We
cannot get back the lives we lost, we cannot remove the agony
(of those affected) ... We can take a vow and draw a lesson
that in future this does not happen," Leader of the Lok Sabha
Pranab Mukherjee said.
He was responding to Harsimrat Kaur (SAD) who raised the
issue spiritedly during the Zero Hour, lamenting that 25 years
after the ghastly incidents in which, she claimed, 7,000 Sikhs
were killed, no one has been punished.
Mukherjee admitted that Kaur had brought back memories of
"one of the most tragic events".
Kaur was supported by the entire opposition, led by Leader
of Opposition L K Advani, following which Mukherjee assured
them that he would speak to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and
other colleagues and see "what best can be done under the
given situation".
She regretted that despite the Nanavati Commission
recommending registration of cases against Congress leader
Sajjan Kumar and others in 2005, no case was registered. "CBI
has still not filed a single chargesheet".
PTI
First Published: Wednesday, December 02, 2009, 15:01