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New Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta connected Friday (December 12, 2025) handed implicit assignment letters to 36 household members of those affected by the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
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During the event, Ms. Gupta said, portion nary authorities assistance tin erase the trauma of the victims, her medication remains committed to supporting them with dignity and justice. Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa was besides contiguous astatine the event.
Addressing the gathering, Ms. Gupta recounted her ain puerility memories of the violence. "I was astir 10 years aged erstwhile the 1984 riots happened. Everyone was scared. People were hiding their identity. We person each seen those horrific scenes," she said.
Ms. Gupta said those scenes could ne'er beryllium forgotten. "No enactment tin afloat easiness the symptom of those days, but the authorities indispensable basal with the victims," she added.
Ms. Gupta credited the Central Government for advancement successful ineligible proceedings related to the riots. "It was lone aft the Modi Government acceptable up the Special Investigation Team (SIT) that, cases reopened and those liable began to beryllium sent to jail," she said.
Ms. Gupta said she considers herself lone a mean successful helping victims person what they are owed. "We lone privation to trim the symptom that New Delhi has carried for truthful long. We privation to enactment sincerely for these families," she added.
Mr. Sirsa thanked the Chief Minister for prioritising long-pending rehabilitation measures, saying families had carried the symptom of 1984 riots for decades, and that the measurement would connection immoderate enactment and recognition.
