Rahul meets families of firing victims in Punjab
Thursday, 05/11/2015
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Faridkot : Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today met the families of the two youth killed in police firing during a protest against a sacrilege incident in the district last month.
Rahul, who arrived by train early this morning, visited the house of police firing victim Gurjit Singh in Sarawa village first. He spent over 20 minutes with the victim's family.
He then headed to meet the family of another victim in Behbal Khurd village.
Rahul was accompanied by Punjab Congress putting up a united show with state Congress president Pratap Singh Bajwa, former chief minister and deputy leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh, Punjab Congress legislature party leader Sunil Jakhar, Indian Youth Congress President Amrinder Singh Raja Warring and former chief minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal.
After meeting the families, Rahul addressed residents of Gurusar village.
Workers also raised the issue of the Congress being a divided house in Punjab with Rahul. However, Rahul assured that the leaders would put up a united face henceforth.
Two people were killed in alleged police firing in Behbal Kalan village last month during protests by Sikh activists.
The protests were against recent incidents of sacrilege of the Guru Granth Sahib in Punjab.
Focus on widows of Tilak Vihar: SAD tells Rahul
DELHI: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday asked the Congress vice-president to first visit the widows of Delhi's Tilak Vihar who still recall the horrors of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots before reaching out to the people of Punjab for “petty political gains”.
“He is welcome to visit Punjab and he should see the situation there. But before that he should have come to Delhi's Tilak Vihar, the widow colony. The coloniser of Tilak Vihar was a member from Rahul Gandhi's family,” said SAD leader Manjit Singh.
The SAD leader said the Congress vice-president never tried to console or share the grievances of the members of the Sikh community who lost their near and dear ones in the 1984 riots.
Manjit Singh alleged that the Congress government at the Centre had tried their best to protect the guilty during the last three decades. —With inputs from agencies
