Chandigarh, November 11, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
Punjab BJP President Kewal Singh Dhillon on Wednesday criticised Sonia Gandhi’s memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love, over its references to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Operation Blue Star, accusing the Congress and the Gandhi family of attempting to whitewash their record from 1984.
Dhillon took exception to Sonia Gandhi’s account that Indira Gandhi had tears of pain and remorse after watching footage of Operation Blue Star. He questioned why, if genuine remorse existed, the truth had allegedly been suppressed for decades.
He also criticised the memoir’s reported description of the military operation as an “unavoidable necessity”. While acknowledging Sonia Gandhi’s reference to factional infighting within the Punjab Congress, Dhillon alleged that the account sought to justify the military action at Sri Harmandir Sahib and Sri Akal Takht Sahib and avoid historical accountability for the events of 1984.
Targeting the Congress’s ‘Punjab Mangda Insaaf’ campaign and its cycle-borne ‘Insaaf Yatra’, Dhillon said the party had no moral right to speak about justice in Punjab without addressing the 1984 anti-Sikh violence and offering an unconditional public apology.
He questioned the purpose of the yatra without justice for the victims and accountability for those responsible. Dhillon alleged that successive Congress governments had protected the guilty and given them clean chits for decades.
The BJP leader credited the Modi government, which came to power in 2014, with constituting a dedicated Special Investigation Team (SIT) to pursue cases related to the 1984 violence. He cited the life imprisonment of former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and the framing of charges against Jagdish Tytler as examples of progress in the cases.
Dhillon demanded that the Gandhi family and Congress leadership issue an unconditional public apology to Punjab and the Sikh Panth and accept responsibility for what he described as the obstruction of justice over more than four decades.
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