‘AAP MLA Attended Sajjan Kumar Meeting’, Phoolka Says It Has No Moral Right To Lecture BJP

AAP MLA Attended Sajjan Kumar Meeting? BJP’s HS Phoolka accuses AAP of hypocrisy over Sajjan Kumar’s condolence meeting, alleging an AAP MLA attended — as the 1984-legacy row spreads to a third party.

North Desk Correspondent

Chandigarh, September 2

Nine days after he became the man who exposed his own party’s MPs for condoling Sajjan Kumar’s death, BJP leader HS Phoolka turned his fire on a second party — accusing AAP of the same conduct it had spent the past week attacking BJP over.

AAP MLA Attended Sajjan Kumar Meeting: Phoolka

AAP MLA Attended Sajjan Kumar Meeting? At a press conference in Chandigarh on September 2, flanked by state media head Vineet Joshi, Phoolka accused AAP of “playing politics with the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh massacre and using their pain for electoral gains instead of genuinely fighting for justice.” He said AAP’s recent protests over the BJP MPs’ visit to Kumar’s residence were “an example of political hypocrisy,” and pointed specifically to AAP MLA Ram Singh Netaji’s alleged participation in a condolence meeting organised for Kumar. “Those who genuinely stand with the victims cannot simultaneously express solidarity with those convicted in cases relating to crimes against them,” Phoolka said.

The same Delhi geography, a third time

‘AAP MLA Attended Sajjan Kumar Meeting’ : One detail strengthens the plausibility of a local, non-partisan explanation even if the specific claim about Netaji holds up: Ram Singh Netaji currently holds the Badarpur assembly seat in Delhi — and his immediate predecessor in that exact seat was Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, one of the three BJP MPs whose visit to Kumar’s residence triggered this entire chain of stories.

If true, that would mean all three parties’ local representatives implicated in this saga — Hooda’s Rohtak-Outer Delhi Jat network, Bidhuri and the other BJP MPs’ Outer Delhi succession, and now Netaji’s Badarpur seat — trace back to the same small patch of Delhi-Haryana border political geography.

It suggests local political fraternity in this specific belt cuts across party lines more than any single party’s ideology does.

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Phoolka’s larger case against AAP

‘AAP MLA Attended Sajjan Kumar Meeting’ : Phoolka broadened the attack into a longer-running grievance about AAP’s handling of 1984 compensation. He said that after the Modi government came to power in 2014, then-Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh announced an additional ₹5 lakh compensation for each 1984 victim family, with the Centre directing states to distribute it “at the earliest” given the nearly 30-year wait victims had already endured.

While several states complied, Phoolka said Delhi’s AAP government delayed the payout. “I repeatedly requested the AAP government to distribute the compensation. The money had already been sanctioned by the Centre. But I was told that there was no point in giving it immediately and that it could be given closer to the Punjab elections,” he said.

He said he resigned from all his party posts in September 2015 in protest, after which the Delhi government distributed the compensation at a function in Tilak Vihar on November 1, 2015. “The victims had already waited 30 years. Their suffering should never have been viewed through the lens of electoral calculations,” he said.

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Phoolka’s own history as his credential

Phoolka framed his BJP association on this issue as predating his formal party membership by decades, recalling his role as adviser to then-Delhi Chief Minister Madan Lal Khurana and the involvement of BJP lawyers Arun Jaitley and Ravi Shankar Prasad in 1984-related cases, as well as Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s efforts to highlight the scale of the killings.

“BJP stood with the victims when it was difficult; AAP remembered them when it became politically convenient. The victims needed justice, compensation and dignity — not political slogans,” he said.

The full arc

This is now the third party drawn into the same controversy inside two weeks. Deepender Hooda’s “role model” remark exposed a Haryana-Punjab Congress split and drew a colleague’s demand for his removal from the CWC. (Hooda later denied having ever used the phrase.)

Three BJP MPs’ condolence visit forced BJP’s own national president to reprimand them, even as Punjab BJP chief Kewal Singh Dhillon applied the identical standard to his own party that he’d applied to Congress days earlier. Now Phoolka — the same figure who blew the whistle on BJP’s own MPs — is attempting to extend the same charge to AAP. Read together, the pattern cuts against any single party’s claim to the moral high ground: local politicians across Congress, BJP and now allegedly AAP have all had to answer for personal or constituency ties to a man every national party publicly disowns.

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