New Delhi, Jan.28 (ANI): Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Tuesday criticized Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's remarks that 'the government of the day in 1984 was not aiding and abetting the anti-Sikh riots', and said that it is very shameful that Rahul Gandhi has stooped to such low votes bank politics.
"I am shocked to see that such an individual, who is being portrayed as a PM candidate of his party, has stooped to such low vote bank politics, that he playing vote bank politics on the graveyard of Muslims and the funeral pyre of Sikhs. It is shameful," she said.
She further accused the then ruling Congress Party in 1984 of abetting and participating in the riots, in which thousands of Sikhs were killed.
"The then Prime Minister, when told about the condition of Sikhs, said 'when a big tree falls, the earth shakes'. The President of the country, who was a Sikh, was so helpless, and when a known journalist like Khushwant Singh called him up, he said 'I am helpless, go to the Home Minister'. The Home Minister was missing," she said.
"The police instead of saving the people were going with the Congress-led goons and targeting Sikh houses, pulling them out and butchering them in broad daylight for three days," she added.
Badal further said that the 1984 anti-Sikh riots were targeted systematic butchering of thousands of Sikhs, and added that there was no law and order.
She further accused Rahul Gandhi for lying on national television by stating that the Congress government worked to stop the riots.
"And Rahul Gandhi, the third generation of this Gandhi family, who I say, has such inbred hatred for the Sikhs. If his grandmother Indira Gandhi went all out to demolish the Golden Temple with tanks and she killed hundreds of innocents who were praying there, his father did everything to wipe out this community, and Rahul Gandhi lies on national TV, and says that the Congress worked to stop the riots," she added.
In an interview to Times Now editor in chief Arnab Goswami on Monday, Rahul Gandhi said: "The difference between the 1984 riots and the riots in Gujarat was that in 1984, the Government was trying to stop the riots. I remember, I was a child then, I remember the Government was doing everything it could to stop the riots. In Gujarat the opposite was the case. The Government in Gujarat was actually abetting and pushing the riots further." (ANI)
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