The Congress Party will rue the day the CBI decided to give a clean chit to Jagdish Tytler for his alleged role in the anti-Sikh riots that followed the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Apart from the immorality of giving a ticket to a man accused of inciting others to kill innocent Sikhs, what face does this leave the Congress party with? Varun Gandhi, the BJP’s candidate from Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh, may be guilty of communal speeches, but no one has got killed as a result. If the Congress party can field a Tytler, then how can it accuse Narendra Modi of a similar role in the Godhra carnage? From any point of view, it doesn’t make sense as to why the Congress party chose to give a ticket to Tytler, or why it didn’t stop the CBI from coming out with its clean chit right now. It is political mismanagement of the worst order.
Ajay Gupta, Gurgaon
