Sikh Man Questions Rahul Gandhi On Operation Blue Star, 1984. His Reply

New Delhi:

Responding to a sharp question on the Congress’s role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, senior party leader Rahul Gandhi said a lot of these “mistakes” happened when “I was not there”, but added that he was happy to take responsibility for “everything the Congress party has ever done wrong in its history”.

Mr Gandhi was at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University in the US two weeks ago for an interaction. During a Q&A session, a Sikh man referred to Rahul Gandhi’s earlier statement that “the fight in India is about whether a Sikh is going to be allowed to wear a turban, whether a Sikh will be allowed to wear a kada or go to the Gurudwara.”