{"id":275,"date":"2004-04-06T10:57:35","date_gmt":"2004-04-06T14:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/04\/06\/still-waffling-on-sajjan-kumar\/"},"modified":"2004-04-06T10:57:35","modified_gmt":"2004-04-06T14:57:35","slug":"still-waffling-on-sajjan-kumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/04\/06\/still-waffling-on-sajjan-kumar\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Waffling on Sajjan Kumar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a163'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">While the Congress Party has pretty much settled on Jagdish Tytler as their candidate from the Sadar constituency in Delhi, they&#x2019;re still <A href=\"http:\/\/cities.expressindia.com\/fullstory.php?newsid=80900\">waffling<\/A><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> on Sajjan Kumar: <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>In Outer Delhi, a Jat-dominated area, the candidature of senior leader Sajjan Kumar has run into trouble with those opposed to him bringing up the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The argument being forwarded is that the Sikh votes will be alienated if the ticket is given to Kumar.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Strangely, this rationale was not applied to the selection of Tytler as a candidate.&nbsp; Tytler has also been <A href=\"http:\/\/www.carnage84.com\/affidavits\/nanavati\/ncapol.htm\">cited<\/A><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> by victims and witnesses of the 1984 carnage against Sikhs as a perpetrator and organizer of the violence.&nbsp; The Nanavati Commission, re-examining the 1984 violence, has also <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/OI-Nanavati-2003-12-08\">issued Section 8B<\/A> notices<\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> against Tytler and Kumar, giving them an opportunity to answer evidence against them.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/newsItems\/departments\/1984\">1984 section<\/A> of the blog has recent news on the Commission.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Congress Party has pretty much settled on Jagdish Tytler as their candidate from the Sadar constituency in Delhi, they&#x2019;re still waffling on Sajjan Kumar: In Outer Delhi, a Jat-dominated area, the candidature of senior leader Sajjan Kumar has run into trouble with those opposed to him bringing up the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1472"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}