RSS decides to sue Manmohan Singh
H Bula Devi
The Hindustan Times
September 04, 1999
Title: RSS decides to sue Manmohan Singh
Author: H Bula Devi
Publication: The Hindustan Times
Date: September 04, 1999
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has decided to sue senior
Congress leader and candidate from South Delhi parliamentary
constituency Manmohan Singh for alleging the Sangh Parivar's
involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Speaking to The Hindustan Times, RSS chief Prof Rajinder Singh, more
known as Rajju Bhaiya, stated that the Sangh would file a defamation
case against Dr Manmohan Singh for making a false statement. He said:
"Like we did in the case of Sita Ram Kesri, a defamation case will be
filed against Dr Manmohan Singh for his false statement."
Prof Singh wondered why the Congress kept 'quiet' for last 15 years
when cases against so many Congress leaders were going on in courts.
"Why did the Congress not utter a word all these years? Why did they
keep quiet?" he wondered.
Taking a serious view of the Congress leader's statement, the RSS
chief said that it indicated desperation in the Congress camp. "The
Congress is desperate this time and that is why it is fabricating this
kind of charges," he said adding they (Congress leaders) thought that
nobody will contradict the statement.
Lashing out at Dr Manmohan Singh for claiming that police records
indicated RSS involvement in the riots, Prof Rajinder Singh wondered
if the police records really indicated such involvement then why
didn't the police start its prosecution for so long?
Meanwhile, scores of 1984 riot widows today demonstrated against the
Congress candidate's allegation. The agitationists even burnt an
effigy of the candidate and expressed their surprise over the Dr
Manmohan Singh denying the Congress's involvement in the riots.
Lambasting the Congress, Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) Delhi unit
president Avtar Singh Hit stated that it was strange on the Congress
leader's part to make this kind of a statement when there had been
cases in the court against Congress leaders H K L Bhagat, Sajjan Kumar
and Jagdish Tytler. He appealed to the Sikh community not to vote for
Dr Manmohan Singh because he has betrayed the Sikh cause.
Meanwhile the BJP today described as absurd Manmohan Singh's remark
that the RSS was behind the massacre of Sikhs in 1984, calling it an
insult to his own person.
BJP general secretary Narendra Modi said nothing could be a bigger
falsehood than this. More than 5,00 Sikh men, women and children were
massacred by Congress mobs across the country after Indira Gandhi's
assassination.
He said in numerable FIRs, court petitions, newspaper reports and
photographs exist to show that Congress hoodlums led by Congress
leaders chasing Sikhs, setting them on fire and looting their homes.
Mr Modi said senior Congress leaders were facing prosecution for their
role in the 1984 incidents.
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