DW BUREAU / chandigarh Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday requested the union home ministry to expedite the cases registered against senior Congress leaders including Jagdish Tytler and Kamal Nath, saying the victims of the Congress sponsored 1984 massacre were still awaiting justice thirty six years after mass killings in Delhi and elsewhere in the country. In a statement here, the SAD President also expressed solidarity with the victims of the November 1 to 4 massacres and said the party would continue to stand with them and fight to ensure Congress leaders behind the mass killings were brought to book. He said the SAD had been in the forefront in ensuring imprisonment of senior Congressman Sajjan Kumar and others who had committed carnage against the Sikh community in Delhi. Speaking about the other cases, Badal said even though witnesses had stepped forward to testify against Jagdish Tytler and Kamal Nath, they were successful in delaying their prosecution which was very unfortunate. "Recently senior journalist Sanjay Suri, who had witnessed Nath leading a mob indulging in mass killings of Sikhs, tweeted that he had written to the SIT to offer evidence as a witness but was never called for the same." Sukhbir Badal also took on the Aam Aadmi Party's Delhi government, saying it was hand in glove with the Congress party and always tried to weaken the prosecution proceedings against Congress leaders accused of being involved in the genocide. He said even Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was trying to befool the Sikh community with claims of being sympathetic to the cause of the victim families. "The truth is that Kejriwal is refusing to give government jobs to the next of kin of massacre victims despite the fact that a decision to this effect was taken by the Delhi cabinet earlier. Kejriwal is refusing to implement this decision even though the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) took up this issue in the high court which asked the Delhi government to look into the matter. Kejriwal has always adopted double standards on this issue and is known to speak one thing in Delhi and another in Punjab." Badal there was no doubt in anyone's mind that the Gandhi family planned and executed the genocide of Sikhs in 1984 after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on November 1. "It is clear that the order to strike at the Sikh community in Delhi and elsewhere in the country came from the very top and the minority community was targeted only because of their identity. He said despite formation of successive commissions and even a SIT the process to make the perpetrators of this genocide accountable for their sins against humanity was proceeding at a slow speed. "I urge the Home Ministry to intervene and speed up this process to ensure justice." (editor@dailyworld.in)