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Anti-Sikh riots was ‘biggest lynching’ incident: Rajnath

Anti-Sikh riots was 'biggest lynching' incident: Rajnath

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Countering the Opposition attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government over instances of mob lynching, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said the 1984 anti-Sikh riot was ‘biggest’ such incident.

Speaking on the lynching incidents, one of the issues cited by the Opposition to attack the government, Singh said the Centre will provide whatever assistance required but the state governments should take stringent steps to curb such incidents.

“The biggest incident of the mob-lynching happened during 1984,” Singh said, referring to the anti-Sikh riot that took place in the aftermath of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination in October 1984.

The minister said the government has formed a Special Investigation Team and assured that justice would be given to the Sikh community. Speaking on the opposition-sponsored no-confidence motion, Singh said the opposition had doubt about who will be the leader and what will the policies be.

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