New Delhi: Senior advocate H S Phoolka yesterday questioned why former prime minister Manmohan Singh had remained silent about his house being attacked during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in the capital.
Phoolka, who is the petitioner in a host of 1984 riots cases, said in a press release: “A shocking revelation has come out in the interview of Daman Singh, daughter of former prime minister Manmohan Singh, on a TV channel, with Karan Thapar.”
“She has revealed that during the 1984 riots, the house of Manmohan Singh in Ashok Vihar was attacked. The mob had almost burnt the house when Manmohan Singh’s son-in-law saved it from burning. She has also disclosed that Manmohan Singh’s family knew the people in the mob,” he said.
Daman Singh apparently gave the interview to coincide with the release of her book, Strictly Personal: Manmohan and Gursharan.
“What is most shocking is that Manmohan Singh, when he was prime minister for 10 years, kept silent on this incident,” Phoolka said.
“Though Manmohan Singh’s house was not burnt, but in the same area, the mob, most probably the same mob, killed seven Sikhs, burnt four gurdwaras, burnt five houses, burnt seven shops, burnt 42 vehicles and also burnt 31 factories,” he claimed.
IANS
