Jarnail Singh - Press Statement w.e.f 21st April 2009

At the outset I squarely refute the charges of Jagdish Tytler appreared in a section of the press that there was a conspiracy behind my protest at the press conference of Home Minister P.C Chidambram. My protest was not against any individual or part of any design as attempted to be projected in the news item.It seems to be a vain effort to divert public attention from the real issue--the denial of justice to the anti-Sikh riots for 25 years.I am forced to make this
statment to clear my position.

I maintain that I have no affliliation with any political party or outfit. And I am ready to face punishment of any sort if someone could prove it otherwise.

The fact is that the Home Minister Conference was scheduled to be held on April 6 (2009) but it was rescheduled to the next day as Mr Chidambram could not reach Delhi on that day.It was sheer coincidence that the day the Home Minister addressed the media, the Akalis had also organised a protest with regard to anti-Sikh riots.Hence any attempt to find any link between my protest any that of the Akalis is unrealistic and farfetched.

Instead of holding any inquiry into the the April seven episode,why no an enquiry should be conducted into the entire gamut of anti-Sikh violence to arrive at the truth and to know how violence was planned, executed and later evidences were destroyed. Why witnesses turned hostile and culprits went scot free. There should also be brain-mapping and polygraphic test of the accused as well the hostile witnesses to unearth the real conspiracy.

Further, I was a regular visitor to AICC office for past so many years and after the announcement of the general elections , I was assigned to concentrate on political developments.Three-four days before this incident, I had covered a press conference held by Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal at the same venue.I was assigned also to keep a watch on poltical developments relating to Punjab,Jammu Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh at the AICC as these states are part of my beat for past many years.. February onwards my main journalistic beats were almost freezed and I was writing poltical stories for election pages.

Jarnail Singh