New Delhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s controversial statement during his first television interview, on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, reopened old wounds. The Congress scion claimed government at the Centre tried to control the 1984-Sikh riots but refused to take the onus of the communal carnage that killed as many as 8,000 people, including 3,000 in Delhi alone.
He said, during the interview, that there were differences between 1984 anti-Sikh riots and 2002 Gujarat riots. He, however, refrained from tendering an apology. Also, for the first time, Rahul Gandhi admitted the role of “some Congressmen” in the 1984 riots.Read more
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