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DELHI—After facing criticism from Sikhs internationally, Kanhaiya Kumar
has stated that his comments were taken out of context in an article
published by Outlook India and Huffington Post India on March 28.
Outlook India quoted Kumar as saying, “There is difference between
emergency and fascism. During emergency, goons of only one party were
engaged into goondaism, in this (fascism) entire state machinery is
resorting to goondaism. There is difference between riots of 2002 and
1984 Sikh Pogroms.”By drawing contrasts between 2002 and 1984, Kanhaiya Kumar had allegedly stated that the mass killings of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 were different than the killings of Sikhs in 1984.
In a statement shared earlier today, Kanhaiya Kumar stated –
I have been misinterpreted and misrepresented yet again. There isn’t an iota of doubt that Emergency represents one of the darkest periods of Indian democracy. My organization AISF strongly opposed and fought against the state repression during Emergency. Both 1984 and 2002 were indeed state led pogroms for which justice is still awaited. The current central government is relentlessly carrying forward its fascist agenda using state power, as visible in the recent authoritarian actions against students and all voices of dissent across the country. What we now witness is unprecedented – a form of undeclared emergency.Kanhaiya Kumar faced criticism over social media earlier. Ajmer Singh Randhawa, Sikh activist and author from New Delhi stated, “Kanhaiyya wasn’t born before 1984, his views are only on hearsay, away from facts. Rajiv Gandhi planned it, than successfully organized [the massacres].”
Manpreet Sodhi, a renowned author stated, “No, Kanhaiya Kumar, you got it wrong there. Both Gujarat 2002 and the anti-Sikh Pogroms 1984 were pogroms carried out with active support of the government in power. Let’s not whitewash the Congress regime in order to show the current BJP regime in bad light by contrast. The hands of both are bloodied.”
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