Close X
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
ADVT 
India

Badal meets Modi, demands probe into 1984 riot

Darpan News Desk IANS, 13 Jun, 2014 10:32 AM
    Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Friday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi here and demanded early resolution of a variety of issues, including terrorism, and a probe into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
     
    Badal submitted a detailed resolution for containing terrorism, said an official statement issued by Punjab Bhavan here.
     
    He demanded a special enquiry commission under a Supreme Court judge to probe official and political patronage behind the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the statement said.
     
    Badal was accompanied by his son and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal at the meeting that took place in Modi's 7 Race Course Road officcial residence.
     
    Badal also demanded that the sharing of river waters must be based on universally accepted riparian principles and vehemently opposed a separate Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee in Haryana, the statement said.

    MORE India ARTICLES

    Soliloquy: 'English As She Is Spoke'

    Soliloquy: 'English As She Is Spoke'
    Sample this: Supervisor to foreman: "Where's Ramesh?" Supervisor: "Sir, he hasn't come today because he's tully". Translation: "Sir, he had too much to drink last night and is still drunk." Find that hard to digest? Well, there's a website called tullyho.com that deals with all there is to about drinks. Do check it out.

    Soliloquy: 'English As She Is Spoke'

    Will Nehru-Gandhi dynasty reboot or fade out?

    Will Nehru-Gandhi dynasty reboot or fade out?
    Narendra Modi is not far off the mark when he says that the May 16 results will be the Congress's worst. Drawing room and tea-stall chatter nowadays centres on whether the 128-year-old no longer a Grand Old Party will be able to reach the 100-seat mark in the 545-member Lok Sabha in which two MPs are nominated.

    Will Nehru-Gandhi dynasty reboot or fade out?

    Congress headed for historic defeat: Modi

    Congress headed for historic defeat: Modi
    The Congress is headed for a historical defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said Monday. Addressing a rally in Mumbai, the Bharatiya Janata Party leader said the Congress will not get seats in double digits in any state.

    Congress headed for historic defeat: Modi

    TIME 100 list of the most influential people: Modi gets more NO votes than Justin Bieber

    TIME 100 list of the most influential people: Modi gets more NO votes than Justin Bieber
    BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi had many more “NO” votes than Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber and polled far fewer popular votes than AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal in a TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world live poll as of late Sunday.

    TIME 100 list of the most influential people: Modi gets more NO votes than Justin Bieber

    India's democracy reaches out to lone voter in Gir forest

    India's democracy reaches out to lone voter in Gir forest
    He remains one of India's most prized voters. Mahant Bharatdas Darshandas is the lone voter in the midst of Gujarat's Gir forest, home to the Asiatic lion, for whom an entire election team sets up a polling booth every election - and will do so again on April 30.

    India's democracy reaches out to lone voter in Gir forest

    Remove 'mother-son' regime, urges Modi

    Remove 'mother-son' regime, urges Modi
    BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Sunday hit out at the Congress-led UPA, terming it a "maa betey ki sarkar" (a mother-son government) and urged people to vote them out.

    Remove 'mother-son' regime, urges Modi