Rajiv Gandhi Statement:
In his speech on November 19, 1984, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi said, “Some riots took place in the country following the murder of Indiraji. We know the people were very angry, and for a few days, it seemed India had been shaken. But when a mighty tree falls, it is only natural that the earth around it does shake a little.”
December 24-28, 1984 – Gen Elections were held for the 8th LS. While campaigning, Rajiv Gandhi justifies 1984 Sikh Genocide, less than 2 mths after the killings, by saying infamously, “When a Big Tree falls, it’s natural that the ground beneath shakes” pic.twitter.com/HkeyA8oc3w
— Suresh Nakhua 🇮🇳 (@SureshNakhua) November 29, 2023
Rajiv Gandhi’s Anti-Sikh Campaign for the Election:
Rajiv Gandhi called the election a month before they were due. A massive propaganda campaign was launched over the radio network (the largest in the world reaching over 90 percent of the population), television (183 relay stations), and the press and through posters. Day after day, all papers in India’s 15 languages carried full page advertisements showing barbed-wire entanglements and text asking: “Will the country’s border finally be moved to your doorsteps?” And “Why should you feel uncomfortable riding in a taxi driven by a taxi-driver who belongs to a different state?” Huge hoardings showed two Sikhs in uniform shooting at blood-stained Mrs. Gandhi against the back-drop of a map of India, or Mrs. Gandhi’s body lying in state with the Congress party candidate’s picture doing homage to her. (My Bleeding Punjab by Khushwant Singh: UBS Publishers’ Distributors Ltd., 1992, p. 101)
Rahul Gandhi’s statement on 1984 Sikh Riot
“Some Congressmen were probably involved” in the killing of hundreds of Sikhs after the assassination of my grandmother and then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi – in an interview with a news channel in January 2014.
