{"id":285,"date":"2004-04-16T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/04\/16\/sajjan-kumar-confirmed-candidate-for"},"modified":"2004-04-16T00:00:15","modified_gmt":"2004-04-16T04:00:15","slug":"sajjan-kumar-confirmed-candidate-for-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/04\/16\/sajjan-kumar-confirmed-candidate-for-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Sajjan Kumar&#8211;Confirmed Candidate for Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a173'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The Congress Party has finally settled<\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> on its <A href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/cms.dll\/html\/uncomp\/articleshow?msid=619364\">Delhi candidates<\/A> for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.&nbsp; It&#x2019;s confirmed that it has chosen Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar, despite their role in organizing and perpetrating the pogroms against Sikhs in November 1984:<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>Sajjan Kumar&#8217;s is the prodigal return. After being out of the electoral fray for 10 years, following allegations of his involvement in the anti-Sikh riots, he looks lean and hungry, out to settle scores for being benched for the better part of the match.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Sajjan Kumar will be contesting in Outer Delhi.&nbsp; Read <A href=\"http:\/\/www.carnage84.com\/affidavits\/mishra\/sajjan.htm\">victim affidavits<\/A><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> regarding Kumar submitted to the Misra Commission and news on the <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/OI-Nanavati-2003-12-08\">Section 8B notice<\/A><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> issued against him by the Nanavati Commission.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress Party has finally settled on its Delhi candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.&nbsp; It&#x2019;s confirmed that it has chosen Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar, despite their role in organizing and perpetrating the pogroms against Sikhs in November 1984: Sajjan Kumar&#8217;s is the prodigal return. After being out of the electoral fray for [&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-285","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\/285","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=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}