1984 Sikh Genocide: Modi government cuts compensation reserve by 50 million

NEW DELHI—Narendra Modi led Union government of India, which had once announced to give compensation of a half million to each Sikh genocide victim family, has cut the money reserve for compensating victim families by Rupees 50 million in the budget session of 2018-19. Notably, the Indian government had reserved Rupees 150 million during the budget session of 2017-18 for the Sikh genocide victim families but this time only Rupees 10 million have been reserved.  

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley made this announcement while presenting the budget of 2018-19 in Indian Parliament on February 1.

It is noteworthy here that as per government records 3,325 innocent Sikhs were brutally murdered all over India by the violent Hindu mobs after assassination of the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984. 2,733 out of total 3,325 genocide victims were killed in Delhi while rest of the victims were murdered in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and other states.

Successive Indian governments from the last three decades have been trying to make the genocide victims quiet with money but the perpetrators of this barbaric carnage are still at large in India.

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