Wednesday, August 10 2005 12:47 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha today (August 10, 2005) suspended the Question Hour and took up for discussion an Opposition-sponsored adjounment motion on Nanavati Commission report as Shiromani Akali Dal launched a blistering attack on the Congress-led Progressive United Alliance (UPA) Government accusing it of failing to take any action against those indicted by the Commission.

"Four thousand Sikhs, including women and children, were butchered but not a single person has been punished," Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, SAD leader and former Union Minister, said initiating the discussion.

Earlier, the Speaker suspended the Question Hour and allowed discussion on the NDA-sponsored Adjournment Motion on failure of Government to take action against persons indicted by the Commission.

Dhindsa said nine Commissions had been set up so far to look into the '84 riots but "we did not get justice. What we are demanding is that at least people indicted by the Nanavati Commission should be punished."

"We were happy when Manmohan Singh, who is a Sikh, became the Prime Minister. But I want to ask him what happened to his community which never got any justice," he said.

He said the House should ensure that all those indicted by the Commission should be punished and cases registered against them.

Dhindsa said the involvement of four people -- H K L Bhagat, Sajjan Kumar, Jagdish Tytler and Dharamdas Shastri -- had been mentioned everywhere but no action had been taken against them.

He recalled that Jagjit Singh Arora, hero of the 1971 Indo-Pak war, could not go to his house and had to stay at the residence of former Prime Minister I K Gujaral as Sikhs were being "butchered and murdered".

"We only want justice," Dhindsa said adding the Sikh community had made immense sacrifices for the country before and after the independence.