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Harsimrat Badal slams Rahul Gandhi for evading apology on 1984 Sikh Genocide and Golden Temple attack
Babushahi Bureau
Chandigarh, May 5, 2025 – Senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal today condemned Rahul Gandhi for refusing to offer an unequivocal apology for the ghastly attack on Sri Darbar Sahib and Sri Akal Takth Sahib as well as the Congress sponsored genocide of Sikhs in 1984.
In a statement here, Harsimrat Badal said “Despite knowing that his grandmother ordered the attack on Sri Darbar Sahib in 1984 and his father’s cronies led mobs who murdered and burnt Sikhs in cold blood on the roads of Delhi, Rahul Gandhi tried his best to subvert a question which sought to question the role of the Congress party in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi’s assassination which led to the massacre of 3,000 Sikhs”.
Badal said when forced to answer the question at Brown University in the United States, the Congress leader did not apologize for either his grandmother or his father’s actions.
“He tried to brazen it out by referring to the incidents as having occurred a long time back”.
Asserting that the evasive answer itself showed how much “pain” he had for the Sikh community, Badal said instead of appreciating that it was the large-heartedness of the Sikh community that did not stop him from entering Sri Darbar Sahib, Rahul tried to give an impression that his visits to the holy shrine amounted to giving a clean chit to him and the Congress family.
“This is furthest from the truth. Our shrines are open for all. Rahul should have understood this and apologized for the criminal conduct of his family during his visits to the shrine instead of using the visits to whitewash himself and his family”.
Badal said it was even more shameful that instead of admitting their fault, the Gandhi family had made a Sikh Prime Minister – Dr Manmohan Singh apologize for the events of 1984. She also asked Rahul Gandhi to clarify what he was referring to as “unfortunate” in his statement abroad.
“Does he think the attack on Sri Akal Takht was unfortunate or the subsequent genocide or the role of the Congress party in the spread of terrorism in Punjab”?
The SAD leader said the truth of the matter was that the Gandhi family as well as the Congress party had no regret for either the attack on the holiest Sikh shrine or the genocide of Sikhs in 1984.
“Both have constantly sheltered, patronized and promoted the likes of Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar and Kamal Nath. The word ‘maafi’ is yet to come out of their lips. This only proves that Rahul’s heart lies with the likes of Tytler and Sajjan and not the Sikh community”, Badal added.