Rahul Gandhi ready to take responsibility for 1984 riots

way2barak May 5: From taking “responsibility” for the anti-Sikh riots to saying that US president Donald Trump “being within his rights” in negotiating on trade tariffs to China and Pakistan being “fused”, Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi touched upon a variety of topics in his discussion at Brown University (US) last month.

Gandhi’s interaction at Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs with Ashutosh Varshney, a professor at the university, on April 21 was uploaded on Sunday.

On a question about 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the Congress’s relationship with the community, he said: “As far as the mistakes the Congress party have made are concerned, a lot of them happened when I was not there. But I am more than happy to take responsibility for everything bad that the Congress has done in its history.”

On reconciliation with the community, he said: “I have publicly stated that what happened in the 1980s was wrong. I have been to Golden Temple multiple times. I have an extremely good relationship with the Sikh community in India and a loving relationship with them,” said Gandhi who started the interaction by saying that the idea of India as a Union of states “is under systematic attack by a narrow ideology”.