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AAP leader HS Phoolka quits party posts to focus on anti-Sikh riot cases

| | Sep 19, 2015, at 09:05 pm
Chandigarh, Sept 19 (IBNS) Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader HS Phoolka on Saturday announced that he was quitting all party posts to focus on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case that he has been fighting.

The Supreme Court lawyer, however, clarified that  he would remain a member of the AAP.

 

"We have decided to make the 1984 genocide an international issue. We will hold a protest during the coming United Nations general assembly session on September 25 that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also attending,” Phoolka, who was accompanied by Punjab and Haryana High Court lawyer Navkiran Singh, told a press conference.

 

He said he had a detailed discussions with AAP national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal before taking the decision.

 

“Kejriwal has always supported me on Sikh-related issues, particularly to get justice for the 1984 genocide victims. I will also contest cases for the AAP as and when the party requires me to,” Phoolka said.
 

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