"Rajiv Gandhi supervised killing of Sikhs during Anti-Sikh riots", claims prominent politician

In a scathing attack against Congress and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Former Punjab Deputy chief minister and Akali Dal Leader accused Rajiv Gandhi of ‘ Supervising 1984 Sikh riots’.

His allegations come soon after a statement by former Union minister and Congress leader Jagadish Tytler.

Jagdish Tytler has revealed that Rajiv Gandhi travelled with him across the city in 1984. It means that the then PM was supervising the killings,” said Badal.

He also demanded a CBI inquiry into the case to unveil the role of Rajiv Gandhi.This came after media reports quoted Tytler as saying that former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi had gone to different parts of Delhi while the riots were on and was angry with MPs from the Congress party as they were told by the party high command to contain the situation.

Interestingly it was earlier this month that Supreme court has appointed a new Special Investigation Team to re-investigate 1984-anti-Sikh riot cases that followed the assassination of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi.

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Retired justice Shiv Narayan Dhingra has been named the head of the SIT. Retired IAS officer Rajdeep Singh and IPS officer Avishek Dullar are the other two members of the committee that would re-investigate the cases.

The team has been asked to present an interim report within two months.

The anti-Sikh riot which spread across many states after the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi was shot dead by her Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984.

One of the most violent massacres that happened in India following the partition of India, it is reported that a total of 3,325 people were killed in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra.

“Rajiv Gandhi supervised killing of Sikhs during Anti-Sikh riots”, claims prominent politician

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