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Union Minister Javadekar Hits Out At Manmohan Singh For Blaming P V Narasimha Rao For 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar (Photo by Mohd Zakir/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Thursday (5 December) lashed out at former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his comment on 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
"Manmohan ji, ordering the Army to tackle any issue is the Prime Minister's prerogative and Rajeev Gandhi was the PM at the time. But truth is, Gandhi supported the massacre in open daylight. He had said that whenever a big tree falls, the earth shakes. These were his words of support," said Jadavekar to counter Singh.
The former PM earlier said that the 1984 riots could have been avoided if Narsimha Rao had listened to I.K. Gujral's advice. He said, "When the sad event of 1984 took place, Gujral ji that very evening went to the then home minister Narsimha Rao and told him that the situation is so grim that it is necessary for the government to call the Army at the earliest. If that advice was heeded, the massacre that took place in 1984 could perhaps have been avoided".
The 1984 riots were a series of organised killings of Sikhs in India following the assassination of then PM Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.
(This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text. Only the headline has been changed.)
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