Emergency a ‘mistake’: Jyotiraditya

In unusually candid remarks on Emergency, Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday said it was a “mistake” and what happened during the anti-Sikh riots in 1984 was “wrong”.

“Why can’t we say together what happened during Emergency is wrong. Let us not go back and forth on it. What happened in the Sikh riots is wrong. Any loss of life in the country irrespective of which government is in power, we need to say what is right is right and what is wrong is wrong,” Scindia said speaking at an event in the national Capital. Scindia insisted that people of the country feel that there has been enough of “tu tu main main” (sparring) about wrongs happening during the rule of one party or the other.

“Anywhere, If an incident is wrong, it is wrong whether it concerns my party or some other. If something is right is right. If something is wrong it is wrong. 

“That is where lies the accountability of a politician,” he said asserting that the party affiliations come only after humanity.