:dateline:Firing a salvo against Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda for misleading the Sikhs, the Dal Khalsa said the [one-man “commission”] constituted by his government on March 5 to probe into the horrific killings of 32 Sikhs in village Hondh-Chillar massacre has turned out to be [a circus].
Notably, the Hooda government on March 5 constituted [a] one-man inquiry commission headed by retired judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court TP Garg to probe the massacre. In his statement Hooda said that �the commission would submit its report to the state government as soon as possible, but not later than six months from the date of its first sitting�.
Expressing their anger against [the] Haryana government, party spokesperson Kanwar Pal Singh and senior leader Satnam Singh Paonta Sahib said 7 months have passed and there was deafening silence vis-�-vis the outcome of the commission. They asked the CM to explain to the public about the progress, if any, the commissioned has made.
�Seven months time is not a short period. To [the] best of our knowledge and according to victims’ kin and kith, the commission has not even started its proceedings let alone completing it within given time frame�, [they said].
[Sikh Siyasat] called up the victims� family members presently stationed at Ludhiana and they had confirmed that [as eyewitnesses nobody] from the commission has contacted them so far to get their statement recorded, they claimed.
�This reflects the [flippant] and indifferent approach of the Haryana government towards the sensitivities of the community.�
�Once again, we the Sikhs have been made to understand that there would be no justice neither for anti-Sikh carnage in Delhi nor for Hondh-Chillar killings and the reason being the complicity of the Congress high command in the killings.�
They also took a dig at the Shiromani Akali Dal for not keeping [a] tab on developments despite having their own government in Punjab. �Akalis take interest in such issues when there were elections or there was public outcry. Otherwise they sleep over such sensitive issues,� said they.
Pertinently, on November 2, 1984, the entire Hondh- Chillar village was burnt down along with its Sikh population. The village consisting of torched houses, a burnt Sikh shrine and scattered human bones [had] been discovered in Feb by Sikh groups.
