BJP MINISTER TO FELICITATE PHOOLKA FOR ’84 LEGAL FIGHT

NEW DELHI: Union minister and senior BJP leader Vijay Goel will felicitate lawyer HS Phoolka, who recently quit the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), for fighting the legal battle for the victims of the 1984 anti-sikh riots, it was learnt.

Phoolka has met Goel twice since quitting the Aam Aadmi Party early last week.

Goel called Phoolka a “good friend” and lauded his legal battle for the riot victims. “He quit AAP recently. (It is) better late than never,” Goel said. Goel will felicitate Phoolka later this week.

Phoolka had also met the BJP leader before resigning from the Aam Aadmi

Party (AAP) on Thursday.

Phoolka has avoided giving any reason for quitting AAP and expressed his desire to float a non-political outfit in Punjab to fight the drug menace and the perceived politicisation of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC).

Phoolka is learnt to be annoyed over the AAP’S stand on the demand to strip former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi of the Bharat Ratna for “justifying” the anti-sikh riots.

rest of the accused in the antisikh riots cases.

In a press release issued here on Sunday, SGPC president Gobind Singh Longowal said the fight for ensuring punishment to the perpetrators of the massacre of Sikhs is on and they want the long fight to conclude on a successful note.