Bitta blames Cong for ignoring him

“I do not give a damn whether Bhullar is hanged or not. The situation at present is so bad that I have been isolated by my own party and its leaders. I wrote to the prime minister some two months back appealing for a permission for kill myself. The Delhi chief minister ensures that Bhullar’s mother gets to meet the party president Sonia Gandhi but no one is thinking about me who was nearly killed in that attack,” he told reporters here on Monday.

Bhullar is on the death row for triggering a blast outside Bitta’s office in 1993,which killed nine persons and injured Bitta. Having spent more than a decade on death row,a campaign to save Bhullar from the gallows has gained momentum in the state.

Bitta also said he would not support commutation of Bhullar’s death sentence to life imprisonment.

“Why so? Let us follow the court and ensure that the orders passed are followed. But it seems that these days it has become a fashion of sorts to defend a terrorist,while not a word is spoken about victims of militancy,” he said.

“I know I am alone today. If I say Bhullar should be hanged,I am blamed for playing politics and if I say I should be allowed to die,I am blamed for trying to secure cheap publicity. I do not know what to do.”

However,he absolved Leader of the Opposition Rajinder Kaur Bhattal and PPCC member Jagmeet Singh Brar for not “toeing the line taken by Captain Amarinder Singh.”