Sikhs for Justice: Sikhs Protest Kamal Nath's Visit to U.S.; Kamal Nath Led Mobs That Killed Sikhs in November 1984

Visit is in Clear Violation of U.S. Law and Disregard for Human Rights Issues

NEW YORK, March 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kamal Nath, MP and Indian Union Minister for Transport, led an armed mob that attacked and demolished Gurudwara Rakab Ganj, in Delhi, burning several Sikhs alive in November 1984. Kamal Nath will be visiting U.S. in April 2010, and is a keynote speaker at various public gatherings sponsored by the U.S. India Business Council.

According to attorney Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, legal advisor, Sikhs for Justice, a U.S.-based human rights advocacy group, U.S. Immigration and Nationality Law which governs the entry of foreign nationals to the U.S., prohibits issuance of Visa and admission to U.S. of individuals with known history of human rights violations like Kamal Nath. Section 212(a) (3)(E)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act categorically provides that "any alien who ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated in conduct outside the United States that would, if committed in the United States or by a United States national, be genocide as defined in section 1091(a) of the Title 18 of the U.S. Code is inadmissible."

Sikhs for Justice will file an official protest with the Secretary of the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Department of Homeland Security and will lobby to cancel Kamal Nath's visa to the USA and to ban his entry into the United States for being a violator of Human Rights and killer of Sikhs.

Demand to oust and ban Kamal Nath's entry into the U.S. is covered under the U.S. Law and is not unique. In the past, Narendra Modi, sitting Chief Minister of Indian state of Gujarat who was involved in the killing of thousands of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, was twice refused a visa and entry into the U.S.

Sikhs For Justice with the support of various Sikh organizations and Gurudwara Management Committees of the United States will hold a "Justice Rally" against Kamal Nath's visit on April 8, 2010 at 8.00 AM outside McGraw Hill Auditorium, 1221 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY.

SOURCE Sikhs for Justice