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Cong compares Rahul's politics to that of Mahatma Gandhi's, BJP calls it 'drama'
The Statesman Delhi
|May 06, 2025
A political firestorm has been ignited with Rahul Gandhi owning up the Congress' mistakes made in the past, even as the BJP accused the grand old party of staging a "drama" and doing nothing against its leaders allegedly involved in the anti-Sikh 1984 riots.
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha (LoP) Rahul Gandhi, while answering a question of a Sikh person during a public interaction in the US, said, "A lot of those things happened when I was not there, but I am more than happy to take responsibility for everything the Congress party has ever done wrong in its history. I have publicly stated that what happened in the 80s
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