{"id":2682,"date":"2010-05-08T11:24:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T11:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehadixit.in\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2023-09-08T09:13:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T09:13:01","slug":"i-was-seen-with-sanjay-gandhi-during-84-riots-jagdish-tytler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehadixit.in\/i-was-seen-with-sanjay-gandhi-during-84-riots-jagdish-tytler\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Was Seen With Sanjay Gandhi During \u201984 Riots\u2019: Jagdish Tytler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-xCiXMrDoDGM\/UX-qQ9U79EI\/AAAAAAAAAJc\/4I0i54uEDFY\/w609-h640\/tytler.jpg\" width=\"609\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<h1 id=\"story_title\"><\/h1>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"story_intro\"><strong><em>With the court now ratifying the CBI\u2019s clean chit, Jagdish Tytler tells Neha Dixit he was the victim of a plot hatched by rivals within the Congress<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>The 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims are upset that the court has given you a clean chit.<\/strong><br \/>\nWith the court\u2019s judgment, a few things have come out very clearly. One, that all this while the truth had never been projected and as a result, I was painted as a bad man in my own country. Amidst all this, my constituency supported me like a rock even when I wasn\u2019t representing them in Parliament. There are two booths in my constituency that are totally occupied by \u201984 riot victims. I did an experiment there once to prove my innocence. I made two boys who had lost their parents in the riots my polling agents. And I got the maximum number of votes from those very pockets.<\/div>\n<div><strong>You have said, \u2018The number of Sikhs killed are small\u2019.<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is totally wrong. Why would I say something like this when my constituency has the maximum number of Sikhs and when I myself belong to a Sikh family? The court has said that these are all concocted stories. My house was full of Sikhs during the \u201984 riots. I gave shelter to a lot of them. Then some people started claiming that they had spotted me near a gurdwara during the riots with Sanjay Gandhi. Gandhi died in 1980! So are we still going to trust the authenticity of such statements?<\/div>\n<div><strong>Had Jarnail Singh not flung a shoe at Chidambaram last year, you would have been in Parliament today.<\/strong><br \/>\nIt\u2019s all right. That was all stage-managed by that person. He had written a book before the incident. And he wrote one after it. Since his book lacked masala, he created some for himself. I have already paid a heavy price for some people\u2019s lies. I don\u2019t regret all this now.<\/div>\n<div><strong>You said some Akali Dal members and Congress insiders were targeting you. Who were those people?<\/strong><br \/>\nSee, it doesn\u2019t make any difference now. But there are people who have taken advantage of this. I don\u2019t wish to name names. However, the Congress president [Sonia Gandhi] has been really supportive even when others were trying to pull me down. She believed in me.<\/div>\n<div><strong>Would you claim the same innocence for [fellow accused] Sajjan Kumar and HKL Bhagat?<\/strong><br \/>\nI don\u2019t want to comment. All I know is that I am out of it.<\/div>\n<div><strong>Key witness Jasbir Singh said he had to leave India because you had threatened him.<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat is interesting is that he is an absconder. He has a fake passport and he escaped from this country not because of me, but because a warrant had been issued against him. The funny thing is that people believe this man \u2014 who is a criminal \u2014 instead of me who has 35 years of political experience and has been a four-time MP.<\/div>\n<div><strong>According to a TEHELKA investigation, you offered money and influenced another key witness Surinder Singh to change his affidavit.<\/strong><br \/>\nHe didn\u2019t change the affidavit in my favour. He changed it to reflect the truth. Also, he told the court that all of the affidavits on his behalf were initially made by HS Phoolka, the opposition lawyer.<\/div>\n<div><strong>You went on record to say that Phoolka blackmailed you and demanded money.<\/strong><br \/>\nIt is true. He was implicating me falsely. The case is in the courts now.<\/div>\n<div><em>Published in Tehelka Magazine, Volume 7 Issue 18, Dated May 8, 2010<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 With the court now ratifying the CBI\u2019s clean chit, Jagdish Tytler tells Neha Dixit he was the victim of a plot hatched by rivals within the Congress The 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims are upset that the court has given you a clean chit. 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