To protest against the central government’s failure to bring the preperators of 1984 anti-Sikh riots to justice, Danga Peerat Welfare Society has given call for “Rail Roko” on November 6 in Punjab. Disclosing this, Surjeet Singh Saluja, general secretary of the society, said, “We will stop trains on November 6 on Delhi-Amritar railway line from 10 am to 3 pm.”

He said that 22,000 families who had got affected during the 1984 riots were still waiting for the justice. He said, “We demand that Jagdish Tytlor, Sajjan Kumar and Kamalnath should be hanged. The wrong policies of Central government and Congress forced us to take an agitational path. We will also burn the flags of the Congress on November 6. We have appealed to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal to depute Akali workers to support our agitation.”

While Gurdeep Kaur, president of women’s wing of the society, said, “On November 14, we will hold a programme in the memory of martyrs of 1984 riots at Dugri. By that time, if the Central government did not take any action, we will plan our next mode of action.”

While Gudeep Singh Ghai, senior vice-president, and Gurdeep Singh Ghai, general secretary of the society, said, “A span of 25 years has passed and the riot victims are still waiting for the justice. In all these years, all the witnesses of these riots also lack their interest and this goes in the favour of Congress.”

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