’84 riots: Manmohan’s Rao remark sparks row

Former PM Manmohan Singh’s comments that had the late I K Gujral’s pleas to then home minister P V Narasimha Rao for Army deployment in the wake of Indira Gandhi’s assassination been heeded, the 1984 anti-Sikh riots may have been avoided saw BJP slamming Singh for seeming to give Rajiv Gandhi a clean chit. Rao’s grandson N V Subhash also criticised Singh for pointing a finger at Rao while shielding the Gandhi family.