Najeeb Jung asks Arvind Kejriwal to send proposal on SIT probe
"Arvind met me and expressed the wish for a SIT probe into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. So I have told him to sent me a proposal for the same," Jung told the media.
Earlier on Thursday, Kejriwal confirmed his meeting with the Lt Governor and said: "Sometime next week we will put forward the suggestion to the cabinet and if passed then the proposal would be sent to the LG."
JUng: Arvind met me and expressed the wish for a SIT probe
The AAP government said the demand for a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe was a part of their election manifesto. Meanwhile members of the Shiromali Akali Dal on Thursday protested in front of the AICC office in Delhi after Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi made statements about the 1984 Sikh -riots.
Anti-Sikh violence ensued in New Delhi and elsewhere after then prime minister Indira Gandhi was shot dead by her Sikh bodyguards Oct 31, 1984.
More than 3,000 people, mostly Sikhs, were killed in the vicious riots.
IANS