After passing resolution AAP backtracks on withdrawing Bharat Ratna from Rajiv Gandhi

After passing resolution AAP backtracks on withdrawing Bharat Ratna from Rajiv Gandhi

AAP backtracked on withdrawing Bharat Ratna Award from Rajiv Gandhi, after passing a resolution in the Delhi Assembly on Friday.

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After passing resolution AAP backtracks on withdrawing Bharat Ratna from Rajiv Gandhi

MLA of Greater Kailash & Secretary-Delhi, of Aam Aadmi Party, today tweeted that, “Lines about Late Rajiv Gandhi were not part of resolution placed before the house and distributed to the members. One MLA in his handwriting proposed an addition/amendment about Late Rajiv Gandhi. Amendments cannot be passed in this manner.”

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Earlier the Delhi Assembly has passed a resolution demanding that Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s Bharat Ratna should be withdrawn. The decision was taken over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

AAP MLA Jarnail Singh passed the resolution in the Assembly and was passed by a voice vote. The resolution further states that the Delhi Government should strongly communicate to the Union Home Ministry (MHA) in writing that justice continues to elude the families and near-dear ones of the victims of the worst "genocide" in the history of India's national capital.

After passing resolution AAP backtracks on withdrawing Bharat Ratna from Rajiv Gandhi

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Recently, a former Congress MP, Sajjan Kumar, was sentenced life imprisonment in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Following which he quit the party.

After the assassination of Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi took over the party and the government. He was awarded Bharat Ratna posthumously in the year 1991. Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award in the country.

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There are reports that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress are reportedly in talks to explore the possibility of an alliance for the seven Lok Sabha seats in New Delhi for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.  Now the AAP has retracted his statement, and turned its back on 1984 anti-sikh riots victims, may be these speculations can be true. Nobody knows!

-PTC NEWS