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Has Anything
Changed?
"I ask you to accept my word and the Resolution of the Congress that
it will not betray a single individual much less a community. Let
God be the witness of the bond that binds me and the Congress with
you (the Sikhs)."
When pressed further
Gandhi said that Sikhs would be justified in drawing their swords
out of the scabbards as Guru Gobind Singh had asked them to, if
Congress would resile from its commitment.
-M.K. Gandhi,
speaking to Sikhs at Gurdwara Sisganj, Delhi, March 1931
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's strongest sentiments for exonerating
the Congress Party: PM's Speech in Lok Sabha: “They have finally
nailed the lie and they have shown that all these canards which have
been spread about the involvement of the top leadership of the
Congress Party in those dastardly acts were totally untrue.”
PM's speech in Rajya
Sabha: (wherein he saluted Jagdish Tytler, who was repeatedly cited
by survivors as a leader of the massacres, as) “a valued colleague.”
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