Monday, August 8 2005 10:58 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Ahead of the tabling of the Nanavati report on 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Parliament today (Aug 8,2005), Union Minister Jagdish Tytler yesterday night (Aug 7, 2005) said not a single commission of inquiry into the incidents 'directly or indirectly named' him.

"Nine commissions had been set up and not one has directly or indirectly named me. When you say Congress leaders are involved and automatically my name comes because unfortunately I belong to Delhi and the whole media is centered in Delhi", he told sources.

Asked if he believed that Congress leaders have targeted him on the riots issue, Tytler said "After 30 years of political experience, I can't come open and speak against the party. I will make it clear to my Congress leader and nobody else".

When pointed out that Congress had in the past denied him Lok Sabha nomination from Delhi apparently on the riots issue, he said "They denied me once and I asked them can you tell me why? Is there any case? Is there any affidavit, which has come? They said there was no affidavit but the perception is there. So, we wanted to satisfy a community".

"But my seat which I never lost, the Congress lost by 60,000 votes" (when I did not contest), according to Tytler.

He said, "I belong to a Sikh family. I am a Kapur. We came from Pakistan and my father was cut into seven pieces".

Asked if after 21 years of the riots, Congress has no responsibility, Tytler said "Anybody who is guilty, how high and mighty he is, should be punished. I had said this in 1984 and I said this at least twenty times in between".