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In his response to the question of a Sikh man, Operation Blue Star and highlighting the role of the Congress in the 1984 riots, Rahul Gandhi accepted the party’s previous “mistakes”, while he said that he was not there at that time.
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Responding to a sharp question on the role of the Congress in the 1984 anti -Sikh riots, party leader Rahul Gandhi said that a lot of these “mistakes” happened when “I was not there”, but he said that he was happy to take responsibility for “everything the Congress party has ever done wrong in his history”.
Mr. Gandhi was at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University in America two weeks ago for a conversation. During a question -post session, a Sikh man mentioned Rahul Gandhi’s earlier statement that “the fight in India is whether the Sikh is being allowed to wear a turban, whether the Sikh will be allowed to wear a tough or go to the gurudwara.”
“You create a fear among the Sikhs what the BJP looks like, you talked about how politics should be fearless, we do not just want to wear Kadas, we do not just want to bind turbans, we want freedom of expression, which has not been allowed under the Congress party in the past,” Sikh Youngster told Mr. Gandhi.
A young man tells Rahul Gandhi to his face, “You do not reconcile with Sikhs, reminding him with unfounded fear during the last visit to America.”
It is quite unprecedented that Rahul Gandhi now not only in India, but around … pic.twitter.com/rml7jsdyki– Amit Malviya (@Amitmalviya) May 3, 2025
He said that Anandpur Sahib Sankalp talks about Dalit rights and does not mention anything of separatism, but the then Congress called it a separatist document. He said, “This is something that your party has done, your party seems to be lacking to accept those mistakes,” he said. The Sikh man referred to former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, who has been convicted of killing the 1984 riots, and said, “Many more Sajjan Kumar is sitting in the Congress party.”
“You tell us to be afraid of what ‘BJP India’ will look like, but you have not tried to reconcile with Sikhs. What are you trying, because if you continue in this way, BJP is also going to make its way in Punjab,” he asked.
In his response, Mr. Gandhi said that he does not think that the Sikhs scare anything. “The statement I made was whether we want India where people are uncomfortable to express their religion? As far as the mistakes of the Congress party are concerned, many of them were when I was not there, but I am more happy to take responsibility for everything that the Congress party has done wrong in its history,” he said. “I have publicly stated that what happened in the 80s was wrong, I have gone to the Golden Temple many times, I have very good relations with the Sikh community in India,” the Leader of the Opposition, the Lok Sabha said.
In the 1980s, the Indira Gandhi government crushed a separatist movement in Punjab, led by radical preacher Journal Singh Bhindranwale. In Amritsar, inside the Golden Temple, who became Bhindranwale, the Indian Army was killed after a storm in the temple premises, one of the holiest sites for Sikhism. The army operation, during which the Akal Takht was converted into debris, expressed large -scale displeasure within the community.
Months later, Indira Gandhi was closed by her Sikh bodyguards. After his murder, widespread violence against Sikhs was observed. Many Congress leaders are suspected of completing this violence. According to government estimates, more than 3,000 Sikhs were killed in Delhi and elsewhere.
Rajiv Gandhi’s “Wohn e Big Tree Falls, The Ground Hila” repeatedly comes to harass the party to deal with the position of Congress. The BJP repeatedly targeted the Congress on the 1984 riots to counter its political attacks.
BJP leader Amit Malviya said that the Sikh person had reminded Rahul Gandhi of “unfounded fear”, which he had engaged during his last visit to America. “It is quite unprecedented that Rahul Gandhi is now ridiculed not only in India, but worldwide,” he said.
