Journalist: Mr. Ambassador, India and Sri Lanka, according to press reports, have reached an agreement to end the four years old ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka.
Ambassador: That’s right.
Journalist: It is also reported that Rajiv Gandhi would be going to Sri Lanka to sign the peace accord.
Ambassador: Very correct.
Journalist: Don’t you think Sri Lanka peace accord will also meet the same fate as Punjab or Assam Accords because Rajiv never signs an accord to sincerely implement it?
Ambassador: Not in national interest to disclose.
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Jouranlist: Mr. Ambassador, Mr. K.K. Tewari, a Minister in Rajiv’s cabinet accused the outgoing President Zail Singh of sedition and charged him with harboring separatists.
Ambassador: That’s right.
Journalist: Incensed Zail Singh demanded Tewari’s dismissal and Rajiv Gandhi reluctantly obliged him, may be as a parting gesture. Ambassador: Very correct.
Journalist: If a slavishly loyalist like Zail Singh can be charged with sedition, what chance is there for a self-respecting Sikh to escape both persecution and prosecution in a country run by a rabid gang of Tewaris?
Ambassador: Not in national interest to disclose.
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Journalist: Mr. Ambassador, former Finance Minister, Mr. V.P. Singh has said that 100 odd youth Congress (I) gangsters that came shouting Rajiv Zindabad and attacked him at the residences of or university teacher, actually intended to kill him.
Ambassador: That’s right.
Journalist: It is believed that the same mob was responsible for attacking the residence of another Rajiv critic, Mr. Arif Mohammad Sayeed.
Ambassador: Very correct.
Journalist: Is it the same mob of gangsters who killed 10,000 Sikhs immediately after Rajiv assumed Prime Minister ship on the death of his mother? Will another Mishra Commission again exonerate these blood hounds?
Ambassador: Not in national interest to disclose.
Article extracted from this publication >> July 31, 1987
