All India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF) and Sikh Students Federation (SSF Mehta) today gave a call for 'Punjab Bandh' for tomorrow in protest against 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
However, both the AISSF and SSF urged people of Punjab to keep bandh peaceful and do not believe in any misleading information.
The bandh call has been given keeping in view anti-Sikh riots on November 1, 1984, 30 years back in Delhi.
AISSF President Karnail Singh Peermohammad said after the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Congress leaders organised and orchestrated genocidal attacks on the Sikh community.
The attacks on Sikh lives, properties and places of worship were carried out in a meticulous and identical manner resulting in more than 20,000 Sikhs being killed most of them burnt alive, hundreds of Sikh women being raped, Gurudwaras being burnt; Sikh properties looted and more than 300,000 Sikhs being uprooted and displaced, he said.
Peermohammad along with SSF President Paramjit Singh Khalsa said "we appeal to the People of Punjab and the SAD (Badal) government to support Bandh and keep government offices, businesses and educational institutions closed for a day".
He said despite recommendations of Nanavati Commission, successive Congress governments shielded the high ranking Congress leaders from prosecution for their role in November 1984.
"Since BJP-SAD is now in power at Delhi, victims demand that cases should be filed against Kamal Nath, Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler," he said.
Among the other organisations who supported 'Punjab Bandh' call were Damdami Taksal's Chief Baba Ram Singh, Akhand Kirtani Jatha's Chief Baldev Singh, United Sikh Movement's President Maukam Singh, 1984 Dharmi Fauji welfare society's president Baldev Singh Gurdaspur, Sikh Federation Bhindrawala's President Balwant Singh Gopala.
