Finance Minister Arun Jaitley slams Sam Pitroda's insensitive comment on 1984 anti-Sikh riots asking ,"Will the Congress President oust his 'Guru', who rubbishes the 1984 genocide?"

Slamming Indian Overseas Congress chief and Gandhi loyalist Sam Pitroda for his insensitive remark over the '1984 anti-Sikh riots', Finance Minister and Senior BJP leader, Arun Jaitley, on Friday, has said that it was a matter of disgrace that Congress had not expressed any remorse for the '1984 genocide' in a series of tweets.

He targeted Pitroda questioning whether Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi will oust him post this insensitive comment.

 

SHOCKING: '1984 Happened, So What?' Congress Leader And Gandhi Loyalist Sam Pitroda Brushes Off 1984 Anti-Sikh Genocide

Earlier on Thursday, Pitroda brushed off the 1984 anti-Sikh riots rubbishing the Nanavati commission report which had pinned former PM Rajiv Gandhi's involvement in the genocide saying that media should focus on last five years.

Speaking to media on the BJP's charge citing the Nanavati commission report that the instructions for the violence had come from then Rajiv Gandhi who had taken up the post of Prime Minister after his mother was killed, Pitroda angrily said, "I don't think so, this is also another lie, and what is with 1984? You speak about what happened in 5 years. It happened in 1984, so what? (1984 hua toh hua)."

Earlier in the day, the BJP had issued the following tweet, citing the Nanavati commission report:

"It’s on record of Nanavati Commission that probed the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the biggest genocide of India in which the government killed its own citizens, that instructions to kill came directly from the then PM Rajiv Gandhi’s office. The country awaits justice for this karma."

EXCLUSIVE: Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh Gives First Response On Sam Pitroda's '1984 Hua Toh Hua' Shocker, Names 5 Delhi Politicians Who Were Involved

Following this Punjab  Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has admitted that he knows the names of at least five Delhi politicians behind the 1984 anti-Sikh genocide while responding to Pitroda's comment.

"I don't know what Sam Pitroda has said, in what context he made it. But it is sad, it is a terrible thing, in fact, what happened. Nobody knows how many people were actually killed in that massacre that took place after the assassination of the Prime Minister," the Punjab CM said.

He also named former Congress leaders Arjun Das, Lalit Maken, H. K. L. Bhagat (former Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting in the Rajiv Gandhi government), Sajjan Kumar (now convicted) and another 'minister' whom he did not name.