New Delhi: Former PM Manmohan Singh has given a statement regarding the 1984 Sikh riots, after which many questions have started to be raised on this matter. Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday that the then home minister PV Narasimha Rao would have prevented the 1984 Sikh riots if he had accepted the advice of Indra Kumar Gujral while on time. This means that the stain of the Sikh riots which has hit the Congress, now the party wants to throw its thikra on Narasimha Rao.

Speaking at an event organized on the 100th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Indra Kumar Gujral, Manmohan Singh said that Gujral had instructed the army to be deployed to prevent the 1984 Sikh riots, but the then Home Minister Narasimha Rao gave ignored his advice. Gujral also met with the Minister on the night of fierce anti-Sikh riots Narasimha Rao also.

Manmohan Singh further said "When the sad event of 1984 took place, Gujral ji on that very sad evening went to the then Home Minister PV Narasimha Rao and said to him that the situation is so grave that it is necessary for the government to call the army at the earliest. If that advice would have been heeded, perhaps the massacre that took place in 1984 could have been avoided.”

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