:dateline:Senior Akali leader Balwant Singh Ramoowalia, vice president of SAD (B), has urged the Modi government to pass a resolution to express regret over the 1984 Sikh genocide during the next session of Parliament.
Ramoowalia said, �Miserably, all political parties have ignored this issue for 30 years. Parliament has not even observed a two-minute silence in memory of those killed in the deadly pogrom.�
�No financial aid has been announced for the victims so far. The Union Government has announced a package for the flood victims in Jammu and Kashmir. But for the genocide victims, there has been no such package,� he said.
The SAD (B) leader said that even opposition leaders in Parliament had not moved a resolution to condemn the killings, adding, �This wrong should be rectified during the coming session of Parliament.�
Aam Aadmi Party leader and senior lawyer HS Phoolka said his party would also ask the Modi government to move a resolution in this regard. He said, �Sikhs were targeted and killed. Their houses and shops were burnt. All this deserves to be condemned by Parliament.�
In addition, the secretary of the state CPI, Bant Brar, said that such a resolution in Parliament would send the right signals.
