Journalist: Mr. Ambassador, Two member cabinet committee is currently visiting Punjab to solve the ticklish problem there.
Ambassador: That’s right.
Jouranlist: Akalis have taken a posture that no dialogue can be had unless the Central Government meets the preconditions set out by them.
Ambassador: Very correct.
Journalist: What’s the cabinet committee doing in Punjab, then? Are they taking instructions from the Arya Samaj leaders or are they arranging for fresh violence in the State to defame the Sikhs and to justify the continuance of the Army occupation of Punjab?
Ambassador: Not in National Interest to Disclose.
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Journalist: Mr. Ambassador, All through the election Champaign Rajiv Gandhi was shouting from housetops that Anandpur Sahib Resolution was antinational and secessionist.
Ambassador: That’s right.
Journalist: Dharam Yudh Morcha was launched by the Akalis for the fulfillment of the demands outlined in the Anandpur Sahib resolution.
Ambassador: Very correct. 2
Journalist: How is it that the Dictator of the Morcha, Sant Harchand Singh Longowal has been released but the innocent volunteers obeying the dictator are still rotting in Jails? Could it mean that the Anandpur Resolution has ceased to be antinational or has Longowal ceased to support the resolution?
Ambassador: Not In National Interest to Disclose.
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Journalist: Mr. Ambassador, in his confessions S. Satwant Singh, one of the alleged assassins of Mrs. Gandhi, has stated that Beant Singh had specifically told him that Mr. R. K. Dhawan was not to be harmed during the shooting of Mrs. Gandhi.
Ambassador: That’s right.
Journalist: He has also stated that there was an unidentified third man who also shot at Mrs. Gandhi. This fact is also borne out by the postmortem report according to which Mrs. Gandhi’s body had eight bullet shots in her back, whereas S. Beant Singh and S. Satwant Singh were directly in front of her.
Ambassador: Very correct.
Journalist: Don’t you think that these statements confirm the allegation of Mrs. Maneka Gandhi that the Gandhi Murder was a kind of ‘‘Palace Coup?”
Ambassador: Not in National Interest to Disclose.
Article extracted from this publication >> April 12, 1985
