Drawing comparisons to Indira Gandhi’s assassination, several verified BJP handles gave genocidal calls like "repetition of 1984", the sikh massacre and "expelling every punjabi from the army."
Justice (retired) GT Nanavati, who headed commissions probing the 2002 Gujarat Muslim genocide and the 1984 Sikh genocide, died on Saturday morning at his home in Ahmedabad.
The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind, requesting him to withdraw the Padma Shri conferred on actor Kangana Ranaut as she was "spreading communal hatred, targeting a religious community, and insulting farmers and freedom fighters."
After thirty-seven years of the 1984 Sikh genocide, the National Commission for Minorities had issued notice to nine states, inquiring about the delay in completion of compensation and delivery of justice to the victims and their families.
Sarbpreet Singh's new publication Night of the restless spirits: Stories from 1984 becomes yet another witness of the horrors faced by the Sikh community of India. The author has captured the essence of the jeopardized Sikh identity in the Indian context and traced it back to the nightmarish events in history.