Don’t let this dangerously subversive, maliciously derogatory and spitefully misleading garbage spouted by Rahul Gandhi to go unchallenged. Which Sikh in India has faced issues on wearing turban or kada over the past decade or in BJP-governed States beginning 1990s? Which Sikh? Only time Sikhs felt threatened and alienated... as a community was when Rahul Gandhi’s daddy Rajiv Gandhi stopped all Sikhs from travelling towards Delhi in the run-up to the 1982 Asian Games, labelling all of them potentially a ‘threat’. On Rajiv Gandhi’s instructions Haryana Police and Delhi Police dragged down Sikhs from buses and cars, identifying them by their turban and kada. The next assault on Sikh identity and existence was by Rahul Gandhi’s grandmother Indira Gandhi when she thoughtlessly ordered Operation Blue Star without adequate preparation and understanding of ground situation. She had the Harmandir Sahib complex invaded and the Akal Takht bombed to smithereens, trampling on Sikh religious sentiments. That wound is yet to heal. The third major assault on Sikh community came after Mrs Gandhi’s assassination when roving mobs of Congress goons killed and pillaged, leaving a trail of death and destruction — thousands of Sikhs were massacred, mostly in Delhi. This happened after Rahul Gandhi’s daddy Rajiv Gandhi took charge as Prime Minister. He refused to lift a little finger to stop the bloodletting and would not agree to calling in the Army. Even after the Army came in 72 hours too late, its troops were sent on wild goose chase by the local authorities. Jagdish Tytler, who has just been held guilty of 1984, was a very close associate of Rajiv Gandhi, as were other senior Congress leaders who have been named, for instance Sajjan Kumar. BJP and RSS workers waded into the violence to rescue Sikhs and their families and risked their lives to shift them to safe camps. Manmohan Singh, contesting elections from Delhi, tried to slyly controvert the truth and the people voted with their feet in response. Rahul Gandhi should also remember that it was his daddy who made the grotesque statement ‘When a big tree falls, the ground is bound to shake’, justifying the mass murder of Sikhs. Rahul Gandhi’s host in the US, Sam Pitroda brushed away the horrors committed against Sikhs with his callous “Hua toh hua” comment. It is during PM Modi’s tenure that apart from major initiatives to recognise the immeasurable contribution of Sikh Gurus towards the preservation of India’s civilisational heritage at the national level, discriminatory decisions of the previous Congress regimes were withdrawn. For instance, Sikh workers at airports are now allowed to carry the kirpan. Who stopped them? Rahul Gandhi’s family and party, the Congress. This intentional distortion by Rahul Gandhi, that too on foreign soil, thus strengthening and emboldening anti-India elements abroad, is odious and condemnable. Irrespective of political affiliation, the people of India must protest. Having seen Congress crimes against Sikhs through the 1980s and 1990s, as a student and later as a journalist, I am appalled by his perversity.show more

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