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The 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots in India

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The 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots in India

The Anti-Sikh riots in the 1984 year of riots had been anything in particular. People are aggrieved when they hear of the incident and narrate stories of how runaway crime could have increased on Sikhs during the time. The main reason for the advent of the riots was the shooting down of Mrs. Indira Gandhi in morning of 31 October 1984. The riots had started off in the evening just after her morning death. The information of the riots was already taken by Giyani Jail Singhji that meeting of congress leaders – Arun Nehru, HKL Bhagat and Jagdish Tytler and more were deciding to give a slogan called ‘khoon ka badla khoon’. The first riot took place in the evening near Delhi market of INA, near south Delhi.

The riots were a challenge to the government to counter the overt insurgency effects, people security and unplanned measures. In revenge for the army raid she (Mrs. Indira Gandhi) had approved on Amritsar’s Golden temple the center of Sikh faith, occupied by major Sikh Nationalists, was the reason purported to be the fact on the riots gaining more fire. Officially, the 492 civilians as well as 83 soldiers had got killed in the operation.

Also CBI the main investigating agency has been of the opinion that many such violence based riots might have also in this incident been supported with help of police and Central government. Later on the Rajiv Gandhi government had come to power and he had said about the incident as ‘when a big tree falls,

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