JOURNALIST: Mr. Ambassador, Mr. Madan Lal Khurana, President of the Delhi Pradesh BJP has accused Civil Aviation Minister, Mr. Jagdish Tytler of a cover up bid in Air India Sales Agency scandal in London.
AMBASSADOR: That’s right.
JOURNALIST; He also alleged that Mr. Tylter travelled secretly to London to preempt the enquiry into the functioning of GSA recommended earlier by the Parliament’s Committee on Public undertakings.
AMBASSADOR: Very Correct.
JOURNALIST: Does it mean Mr. Tytler has been granted the license to commit illegal acts after carrying out Rajiv Gandhi’s orders to indiscriminately massacre Sikhs in Nov 1984?
AMBASSADOR: Not in national interest to disclose.
JOURNALIST: Mr. Ambassador, Bhartiya Janata Party has demanded fresh elections to the Parliament in view of Rajiv Gandhi’s failure to provide a clean government. AMBASSADOR: That’s right.
JOURNALIST: In a resolution adopted at its three day meeting, it said, “the ouster of the corrupt and worthless government was the No. 1 issue before the people and should take precedence over everything else.
AMBASSADOR: Very correct.
JOURNALIST: How is it Bhartiya Janata Party calls Rajiv’s government corrupt and worthless but supports its communal suppression of religious minorities like Sikhs and Muslims?
AMBASSADOR: Not in national interest to disclose.
JOURNALIST: Mr. Ambassador, the Pakistan Air Force Technical Investigation, carried out with U.S. assistance into President Zia-Ul-Haq’s plane crash in its report stated “it was a case of sabotage.”
AMBASSADOR: That’s right.
JOURNALIST: The report, however, made no reference to who might be responsible, and left it to Pakistani Intelligence Agencies to pin point the culprits.
AMBASSADOR: Very correct.
JOURNALIST: Do you think Pakistani government will publically identify the ‘foreign hand’ responsible for the crash only after the November elections?
AMBASSADOR: Not in national interest to disclose.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 21, 1988
