A New Idea of India: Individual Rights in a Civilisational State

by Harsh Gupta 'Madhusudan'

Singh claimed while campaigning during the 1999 general elections that the 1984 pogrom had been orchestrated by the RSS and that the Congress party had nothing to do with it.159 He made this wild assertion because no investigation till then had been able to pin down the Congress party or any of its leaders for perpetrating the 1984 pogrom, even though there were eyewitness accounts of prominent Congress party functionaries leading mobs to kill innocent Sikhs. The Misra Commission constituted in May 1985 kept the names of the accused secret from the public. More committees and commissions were created to act on the findings of the Misra Commission. The entire exercise made a mockery of justice as the Congress-controlled governments did not act on their recommendations, and there was political connivance to delay and protract the process.