RP Singh, the national spokesperson for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)—one of India’s major political parties—has written to India’s Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah calling for the establishment of a “truth commission” to expose the conspiracy behind the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and take cognizance against the “real culprits."
Singh has also requested the home minister to declassify all documents pertaining to the period leading up to Operation Bluestar and the Sikh pogrom later that year.
Around 3,000 Sikhs were killed in Delhi in violence soon after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was killed by her two Sikh security guards on October 31, 1984.
Singh said that it is even more important to know who all were involved in this conspiracy and understand how and why the most patriotic minority of the country was painted as anti-national, solely with the intention to garner the majority vote for political gains.
Over the last 38 years, four inquiry commissions, nine committees, and two special investigation teams were formed but they still failed to dig deeper and reveal the real conspiracy, he said, adding everybody knows that the names of certain “high and mighty” people have come to the fore in this heinous crime, he asserted.
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