Congress leader Jagdish Tytler has offered an apology for the anti-Sikh violence of 1984 in Delhi. The beleaguered politician said if the courts find him guilty, he should be hanged.
However, he vehemently defended himself and claimed that it was a conspiracy to link his name to the ‘riots’. He said some members of his own party may have been behind the conspiracy.
“There are no cases against me, I am not an accused. My name hasn’t figured anywhere.”
“There were over a thousand applications before the Nanavati Commission, and just two people Surinder Singh and Jasbir Singh named me,” Tytler said during an interview with ABP News.
He said he had written a letter to the Akal Takht, expressing his willingness to go to apologise, if any there are any genuine allegations against him.
Expressing his shock at his statement, lawyer HS Phoolka termed Tytler as the “main mastermind” of riots.
Mr. Phoolka, who has been fighting a legal battle for the Sikh victims for the past over three decades, said he would meet the Jathedar of Akal Takht to present a proof of Tytler’s involvement in the violence.
