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1984 riot widows petition PM on lifting ban on book

A delegation of 1984 riot widows delivered a memorandum to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee expressing concern over the health of Gurcharan Singh Babbar, whose hunger strike at Raj Ghat entered the fifth day today.

The memorandum informed the prime minister that Babbar was protesting against the ban on his book relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in the wake of former prime minister Indira Gandhi's assassination, and he would continue with it till the prime minister assures a revision of orders and justice to the riot victims by awarding deterrent punishment to murderers and marauders.

The memorandum stated that the ban on the book, The Carnage, amounted to betrayal of Sikhs who voted for the Bharatiya Janata Party and worked hard for its success on the assurance that the guilty in the riots will be duly punished.

The widows were assured by an official at the prime minister's home that the memorandum will be forwarded to Vajpayee forthwith, and advised them to personally meet the PM on Tuesday, a release by Darshan Kaur, a complainant in the 1984 riots case, said.

UNI

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