{"id":316,"date":"2004-05-26T14:21:22","date_gmt":"2004-05-26T18:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/05\/26\/new-prime-minister-appoints-1984-per"},"modified":"2004-05-26T14:21:22","modified_gmt":"2004-05-26T18:21:22","slug":"new-prime-minister-appoints-1984-perpetrators-as-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/05\/26\/new-prime-minister-appoints-1984-perpetrators-as-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"New Prime Minister Appoints 1984 Perpetrators as Ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a221'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Two perpetrators of the 1984 carnage against Sikhs have&nbsp;been&nbsp;given&nbsp;<\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/pti_news.asp?id=223507\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">ministerial positions<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> in the new government formed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.&nbsp; Kamal Nath, accused of leading the mob that attacked and destroyed Gurudwara Rakab Ganj and burned alive several Sikhs inside, is now a member of the Prime Minister&#8217;s Cabinet.&nbsp; He will serve as Commerce and Industry Minister.&nbsp; <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><A href=\"http:\/\/cities.expressindia.com\/fullstory.php?newsid=85401\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Jagdish Tytler<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">, whose nomination as a Congress candidate led to protests by survivors of the 1984 pogroms, is now a Minister of State for NRI Affairs.&nbsp; Read the <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/newsItems\/departments\/1984\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">1984 section<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> of the blog for Nanavati commission <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2003\/12\/20#a28\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">steps<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> taken in regards to Tytler and Kamal Nath.&nbsp; The Nanavati Commission issued section 8B notices against both <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/DG-Nanavati-2003-12-09\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Nath<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> and <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/OI-Nanavati-2003-12-08\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Tytler<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two perpetrators of the 1984 carnage against Sikhs have&nbsp;been&nbsp;given&nbsp;ministerial positions in the new government formed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.&nbsp; Kamal Nath, accused of leading the mob that attacked and destroyed Gurudwara Rakab Ganj and burned alive several Sikhs inside, is now a member of the Prime Minister&#8217;s Cabinet.&nbsp; He will serve as Commerce and [&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-316","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\/316","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=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}