Hardeep Singh Puri slams Rahul Gandhi for his remarks on Sikhs in US
- In Reports
- 07:59 PM, Sep 10, 2024
- Myind Staff
Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri sharply criticised Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday, condemning his comments on Sikhs. Puri accused Gandhi of fostering a dangerous narrative by discussing sensitive issues during his speech in the United States.
Puri denounced Rahul Gandhi’s statements made in the US as sinister, accusing him of disseminating falsehoods among Sikhs living abroad.
“I condemn in the strongest terms the statement he has made about Sikhs not being able to wear turbans and kadas,” he said.
Referring to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots that took place during the Congress’s rule, Puri said, “If there has been one time in our history when as a community we have felt anxiety, a sense of insecurity and existential threat, it has been the times when Rahul Gandhi’s family has been in the seats of power.”
“In 1984, a pogrom was carried out against the Sikh community. As many as 3,000 innocent people were killed. People were dragged out of their homes, tyres were put around them and burnt alive,” he added.
During a gathering of Indian Americans in Herndon, a suburb of Washington DC, on Monday, Rahul Gandhi asserted that his struggle centred on whether Sikhs had the freedom to visit gurdwaras.
“The fight is about whether a Sikh is going to be allowed to wear his turban in India or a kada in India. Or he, as a Sikh, is going to be able to go to Gurdwara. That’s what the fight is about. And not just for him, for all religions,” he said.
He said Rahul Gandhi had been making statements on sensitive issues, which “involve our national identity, unity, the strength of our unity and diversity”.
“I think he is trying to set a new kind of narrative which I think is a dangerous narrative,” he further added.
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