Can’t Compare 1984 Sikh Genocide to Gujarat Riots, says Parliamentarian Naresh Kumar Gujral
Posted: 13 May 2019 08:05 AM PDTCHANDIGARH, Punjab—Parliamentarian Naresh Kumar Gujral has said that there is a big difference between the 1984 Sikh genocide and the Gujarat riots occurred in 2002 so the Congress party cannot get rid of its sin by holding the Prime Minister Narendra Modi responsible for the Gujarat riots.
Gujral has said that the police made every possible effort to control the riots on the orders of the Chief Minister at that time in Gujarat and more than 300 people were killed in police firing. “Contrary to this, no bullet was fired by police in Delhi during the 1984 Sikh genocide,” he maintained.
Gujral said that what happened in Gujarat were riots, whereas the Congress party had committed a massacre of Sikhs and the Rajiv Gandhi-led Indian government did not call the army for three days and the massacre was allowed to reach its peak.
He recalled how his father Mr. I.K Gujral along with General Jagjit Singh Arora and Air Marshal Arjun Singh repeatedly approached the then president Giani Zail Singh and Home Minister PV Narasimha Rao and requested them to call the army. “But the duo office bearers expressed helplessness by saying that the Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi has ordered for not calling the army,” he added.
Naresh Kumar Gujral further said that Giani Zail Singh had told his father and General Arora that the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was not attending his calls. “Giani Zail Singh’s daughter has also mentioned this fact in one of her writings,” he informed.