Sonia appoints Azad as Congress general secretaries incharge of UP

Mr Nath has to ensure the party’s victory in Punjab on one hand and to contain the growing dissension in the Haryana Congress, that came to fore in the Rajya Sabha polls on Saturday, in which its 14 votes were declared invalid and thus helped the BJP-backed heavyweight candidate.

“Nobody even lodged a complaint against him. Does Capt absolve Kamal Nath?”, Kejriwal tweeted.

Earlier, not only Congress tried hard to save the skins of key accused Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar, HKL Bhagat and Kamal Nath, but also honoured these leaders with key posts in party and Government.

The Justice Nanavati Commission had recommended reopening of only four of the 241 cases closed by police but BJP wanted re-investigation of all the other 237 cases. He is here, just overseeing the things.

Congress has, since then, not been able to recuperate in Uttar Pradesh.

Commenting on AAP’s stand, Badal said: “AAP has no locus standi on the issue”.

Mistry, who is credited with putting in place the party’s organisational structure in Uttar Pradesh, was having problems with Prashant Kishor, the poll strategist hired by the Congress to craft its campaign in the state. “Why has it consistently blocked any action against senior leaders including Kamal Nath and Jagdish Tytler”, he alleged.

With Assembly elections round the corner, the appointment of Kamal Nath, who faces allegations of leading mobs during the 1984 Sikh genocide in Delhi, has given fresh ammunition to rival political parties to corner the Congress, which is hoping to make a comeback in the state after a decade.

“This was end of the matter as there was never a charge against me and the matter was also raised in Parliament, there was no charge by the Akalis themselves for all these years”, he said.

It makes you wonder if the Grand Old Party has signed its own death warrant in the upcoming state assembly elections, in which the Aam Aadmi Party has already set itself up as a formidable contender.

“How can they give Kamal Nath a clean chit when his name has cropped up again and again in connection with violence against Sikhs in 1984”, Phoolka said, citing newspaper reports and the Nanavati Commission findings. Mukhtiar Singh, testified to seeing Nath lead an armed mob that attacked and demolished a Gurudwara in Rakab Ganj.

The massacre of more than 3,000 Sikhs in 1984, triggered by the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh body guards, is an unhealed wound.