NEW DELHI (The Thursday Times) — 1984 ke Sikh mukhalif tashaddud ke mutasireen ke muqaddamat dahaiyon tak larne wale senior wakeel HS Phoolka ne Sonia Gandhi ki nayi yaddashton mein halakaton ke bayan ko challenge kiya hai aur mutalba kiya hai ke woh ya to dastavezi saboot pesh karein ya maafi maangein.
Phoolka, jo ab Bharatiya Janata Party ke rehnuma hain, ne is hafte Punjab mein ek press conference mein kaha: “Yeh na to koi achanak fasaad tha aur na Hindu-Sikh tasadum.” Un ka ilzam tha ke Congress ke rehnumaon, karkunon, aur munazzam hujoomon ne Sikhon ko nishana banaya jabke police ne aankhen pher leen.
Sonia Gandhi ki yaddashtein 'Belonging: A Journey of Love' Mangal ko farokht ke liye pesh huin. In mein woh tashaddud ko ek “almnaak aur sharmnaak baab” qarar deti hain aur apne shohar Rajiv Gandhi ka mili bhagat ke ilzamat ke khilaf difa karti hain. 31 October 1984 ko Wazir-e-Azam Indira Gandhi ke Sikh muhafizon ke hathon qatl ke baad taqriban 3,000 Sikh maare gaye thay.
Fauj ka sawal
Phoolka ne yaddashton mein is bayan par aiteraz kiya ke fauj jald kyun tainaat nahin ki gayi. Un ke mutabiq kitab kehti hai ke Rajiv Gandhi ne 31 October ki raat Army Chief General AS Vaidya se fauj talab karne ko kaha, aur General ne hichkichahat dikhai kyunke Delhi ke qareeb units mein Sikh fauji thay, is liye door ke stations se daste bulaye gaye.
Phoolka ne is dawe ko “haqaiq ke bar-aks” qarar diya. Justice Ranganath Misra Commission ke record ka hawala dete hue unhon ne kaha ke 31 October ki raat se 1 November ki subah tak Delhi mein taqriban 6,000 fauji pehle se maujood thay magar unhein barrackon mein rakha gaya, aur agar unhein bila takheer tainaat kiya jata to 2,000 se zyada Sikhon ki jaanein bachai ja sakti theen.
Unhon ne Sonia Gandhi ko challenge kiya ke woh 31 October ki seh pehar Delhi mein tashaddud ka ek bhi waqia batayein. Un ke mutabiq shehar shaam taqriban 5 baje tak pursukoon tha, jab All India Institute of Medical Sciences ke bahar ek hujoom ne Sadr Giani Zail Singh ke qafle par hamla kiya, jise unhon ne ek mansooba band karrawai ka aaghaz qarar diya.
Phoolka ne sawal kiya ke agar Rajiv Gandhi ki koi zimmedari nahin thi to takheer par kisi police ya civil afsar ko saza kyun nahin mili, aur kaha ke mutasireen ki janib se namzad rehnumaon ko is ke bajaye party tickets, wazaratein, aur taraqqiyan di gayin.
Barhta hua tanaza
BJP ne 1984 se mutaliq hisson ko aare hathon liya hai, aur us ke qaumi tarjuman CR Kesavan ne kaha ke yaddashton ka naam “Whitewashing” hona chahiye tha. Bihar mein Janata Dal (United) ne kitab mein Wazir-e-Aala Nitish Kumar ki tasveer kashi par aiteraz kiya hai, jabke Congress rehnumaon ne naqideen se kaha hai ke tanqeed se pehle kitab parhein.
Phoolka ne kaha ke tareekh ko commission ke record, tehqiqati files, aur gawahiyon ki kasauti par parkha jana chahiye, “zaati yaadon ya siyasi tashreehat par nahin”.
