Friday, December 6th, 2019
Records show Gujral and others urged early Army deployment during 1984 riots

Official records indicate that a view expressed by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, namely that lives might have been saved had the Army been deployed as soon as rioting broke out after the assassination of Indira Gandhi, was shared at the time by political leaders, war veterans and serving officers, but the Congress government did not act until it was too late. Singh’s remarks Singh had referred to a meeting between former Prime Minister I. K. Gujral and P. V. Narasimha Rao, then Home Minister, saying that if Gujral’s adviceRead More
