Bitta says will fight till end

ON DEATH ROW: Davinder Singh Bhullar of the Khalistan Liberation Force convicted for killing nine people and injuring 31 in a bomb blast in ...

ON DEATH ROW: Davinder Singh Bhullar of the Khalistan Liberation Force convicted for killing nine people and injuring 31 in a bomb blast in 1993. Among those who survived the attack are former Youth Congress Chief, M S Bitta.

Former Youth Congress chief M S Bitta, who was injured in the blast triggered by Devinder Singh Bhullar said today that he was consulting his lawyer on the issue of Presidential pardon.

Speaking on phone from New Delhi, Bitta said: ‘‘I know the President of India is the highest authority. Maybe, I can do nothing if he awards clemency to Bhullar, but I will fight it till the end.’’

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Bitta said that four of his gunmen were killed in the attack that was allegedly aimed to eliminate him. ‘‘He will come out and plot more murders in the name of religion,’’ said Bitta.

Meanwhile, speaking from Vancouver in Canada, Bhullar’s wife Navneet Kaur called the President’s move a great step, saying: ‘‘It should not go waste.’’

Navneet married Bhullar, a former lecturer in Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, in 1991. It was after his deportation from Germany in 1994 that Bhullar was jailed and tried for terrorist activities.

Urging the government to give a second chance to him, she said: ‘‘I know many people have been hurt on both sides. But those were tumultuous times, we need to begin afresh.’’

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