NEW DELHI: According to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the Narendra Modi administration took office in 2014 before justice for the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots began to be served. Speaking at a Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee event, Shah stated that 300 cases connected to the 1984 riots were reopened and that after 2014, compensation of Rs 5 lakh was granted to each victim’s family. “No one will ever forget the 1984 riots.” Until the Modi administration came into power, no one was sentenced for those disturbances. Numerous inquiry commissions were established, however they produced no findings. But Modi established the SIT, reopened 300 cases, and began locking up those found guilty, the source claimed.The procedure of awarding Rs 5 lakh in compensation to the dependents of the 3,328 victims was completed by the Modi government, according to the home minister, after a long period of time. He praised the Sikh gurus and the Sikh community, saying that they move forward while considering religion and karma equally, and that a true Sikh never looks back when it comes to giving their life for their religion. He claimed that Sikh brothers’ sacrifice was unmatched from the time of the country’s independence war to the present, when it comes to national security. I bend my head to the Guru tradition of the Sikh religion, Shah stated as he paid respect to the Sikh gurus.The Guru heritage of the Sikh Panth, which spans ten generations, has provided the world with an outstanding example of resistance to injustice and barbarism in the face of invaders.” He asserted that the nation will never forget the 9th Guru Teg Bahadur’s contributions. According to Shah, his greatest sacrifice in opposition to the horrors committed by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb on the Kashmiri people demonstrated his greatness. According to the home minister, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided to hold a festival in Guru Teg Bahadur’s honour, it was decided that the celebration would start from the Red Fort location where the news of his martyrdom was first revealed.
Regarding the Sikh religion’s founder Guru Nanak Dev, he claimed that through his “Char Udasiyaan” sermons, Guru Nanak Dev preached the equality of all religions in numerous nations. From Karnataka to Mecca, his feet have been discovered. To convey the message of unselfish love, people in ancient days could not have even dreamed of travelling so far on foot, he said. The legacy of empowering women in the Sikh religion, according to Shah, dates back to the time of Mata Khivi’s langar teaching. “The Sikhs have always been at the forefront in making the ultimate sacrifice to secure the borders of the country, from the struggle against the rule of the Mughals to the movement against the British and the struggle for independence, and even now,” he said.
