Chandigarh
\nThe Shiromani Akali Dal on Saturday hit out at Congress president Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, saying by disagreeing with the view his party was involved in the \u201cgenocide\u201d, he had \u201crubbed the salt into the wounds\u201d of the Sikh community.<\/p>\n
Hitting out at the Congress president, SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal alleged that Gandhi was trying to protect those Congress leaders who were involved in the \u201cgenocide\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cRahul Gandhi has rubbed salt into the wounds of Sikh \u2018quom\u2019 by saying that the Congress was not involved in 1984 anti-Sikh riots,\u201d Badal told reporters here today, adding, \u201cIt shows the thinking of Gandhi towards Sikh community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Describing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots a \u201cvery painful tragedy\u201d, Gandhi, who is on a two-day visit to the UK, said, \u201cI have no confusion in my mind about that. It was a tragedy, it was a painful experience. You say that the Congress party was involved in that, I don\u2019t agree with that. Certainly there was violence, certainly there was tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nearly 3,000 Sikhs were killed in the riots in 1984 following the assassination of former prime minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards when the Congress government was in power at the Centre.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to ask Rahul if Congress leaders were not involved in anti-Sikh riots, then why it withdrew tickets given to Congress leaders HKL Bhagat, Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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