When the vice-president of a dominant Indian political party gave an interview yesterday, he had admitted that his party members were involved in the killing of 3000 Sikhs in the capital in 1984 when Mrs. Indira Gandhi was shot. The police themselves shot 200 men. Police did not stop rioters and were given orders not to leave the police station. No court trials were held for the killings and no accused were not punished; if even 30 years after it had happened no justice has been done, then when will it be? He had also said that he is not apologising for it. This is enough to make us us all very very angry. Cries of those whose kin had died mercilessly in 1984 in New Delhi, of wailing women and children, still echoing in the memories of families living here. This is going to be very difficult for his fellow members of the dominant party to talk themselves out of the controversy created by the interview.
He was willing to align with a party whose head has been sent to jail for scams.
Not only this, he was not aware of the phenomenal increase in rise of basic food items (vegetables by as much as 520%.) He would evade answers on key issues. This interview is enough to send the future of his party swirling downwards.
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