Rahul Gandhi ridiculed globally too, says BJP on student quizzing him on 1984 riot | India News

Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi (Pic credit score: ANI)

NEW DELHI: BJP on Sunday lauded the Sikh student who questioned Rahul Gandhi over the bloodbath of Sikhs in 1984 and stated it was telling that the Congress chief was being “ridiculed not just in India, but around the world”.
The student requested Rahul what makes an attempt he was making to reconcile with the Sikh neighborhood and referred to the 1984 riots in his prolonged poser when the Congress MP was having an interplay session with college students at Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University within the US on April 21. The video of the interplay was uploaded on Saturday on the Watson Institute’s YouTube channel.
BJP’s IT cell chief Amit Malviya shared a snippet of the video and stated the student had straight reminded Rahul of the “unfounded fear-mongering” he had carried out about Sikh identification beneath BJP rule.
Questioning Rahul’s earlier remarks on spiritual freedom beneath BJP rule, the Sikh student stated, “You create fear among Sikhs about what BJP would look like. We want freedom of expression, which has not been allowed under the Congress in the past.”
The student additionally referred to the Anandpur Sahib decision, which he claimed the Congress mis-characterized as a separatist manifesto. He criticized the get together’s failure to reconcile with the Sikh neighborhood and pointed to convicted former Congress chief Sajjan Kumar as proof of lingering impunity, and stated, “Many more Sajjan Kumars are sitting in Congress party.”
In response, Rahul admitted that Congress had dedicated many “mistakes” when he was not there, however added that he was very happy to take accountability for every little thing the get together had ever carried out improper. He identified that he had publicly said that what occurred within the Nineteen Eighties was “wrong”.
BJP additionally attacked Rahul for calling Lord Ram “a mythological figure” on the identical interplay.