1984 by Pav Singh

Author:Pav Singh [Pav Singh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781911271123
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Published: 2019-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

During a parliamentary debate on the Nanavati report in August 2005, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a Sikh himself, apologised for what had happened:

I have no hesitation in apologising not only to the Sikh community but the whole Indian nation because what took place in 1984 is the negation of the concept of nationhood and what is enshrined in our Constitution.

Citing Nanavati, he refused to accept that the upper echelons of a Congress government were in any way responsible for the events of November 1984: ‘The Report is before us, and one thing it conclusively states is that there is no evidence, whatsoever, against the top leadership of the Congress Party’. He continued, referring to the massacres as ‘riots’, criticised the Akali Dal for their ‘divisive rhetoric’ and ended with hopes for a national reconciliation.

But for many, the Nanavati Commission had failed to secure the closure the country so desperately needed. As Siddharth Varadarajan, deputy editor of The Hindu, would so eloquently remark:

Modern states do not allow small men like Jagdish Tytler, Dharam Dass Shastri and Sajjan Kumar to unleash – as part of some sort of private initiative – murder on a genocidal scale. Modern states do not allow their police system to fall apart, except by design. Modern states do not allow Army commanders to say they do not have enough troops to do the job at hand. Littered through Mr Justice Nanavati’s text are all the tell-tale dots of official guilt but these have been left unconnected, allowing the institutional rot to remain and infect our body politic once again.

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