Journalist: Mr, Ambassador, anti-Hindu agitation has again sparked off in Tamil Nadu state following Rajiv Gandhi’s insistence that all states in India will have to accept Hindi as the National language.
Ambassador: That’s right.
Journalist His grandfather Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India had given a categorical assurance that Hindi will not be imposed upon the nonHindi speaking states.
Ambassador: Very correct.
Journalist: Why can’t Delhi rulers learn to keep their promises? Don’t you think the Sikh problem in Punjab also has its genesis in the broken promises of these rulers?
Ambassador: Not in national interest to disclose.
Journalist: Mr. Ambassador, despite denials by Pakistan, Rajiv keeps repeating that Pakistan is training Sikh freedom fighters and indulging in subversive activities to undermine the unity and integrity of India.
Ambassador: That’s right.
Journalist: At the same time, he is openly training and arming Tamil guerrillas to destroy the unity and integrity of Sri Lanka.
Ambassador: Don’t you think Rajiv, like his mother, is creating the bogey of Pakistan’s interference in India so as to divert the attention of the Indian masses from such pressing problems as Gurkhaland agitation, anti-Hindi agitation, killing of Muslims in Bangalore, killing of Sikhs all over India farmer’s agitation for better prices and host of other similar challenges?
Ambassador: Not in national interest to disclose.
Journalist: Mr. Ambassador, it is reported that Punjab Chief Minister’s son has been sanctioned 32 corer rupees to set up a factory in Punjab.
Ambassador: That’s right,
Journalist: It is also reported that Punjab Finance Minister, Balwant ‘Singh, also received crores of rupees in financial assistance from the Center to execute his contracts in the Middle East. Ambassador: Very correct.
Journalist: Do you think these traitors of the Sikh n: to avoid the inevitable nemisis? Don’t you think this game of using greedy Sikhs to defeat the legitimate Sikh aspirations cannot go on forever?
Ambassador: Not in national interest to disclose.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 19, 1986
