Journalist: Mr. Ambassador, British experts investigating into the cause of Air India Jumbo Jet crash have categorically ruled out bomb explosion.
Ambassador: That’s right.
Journalist: Professional ethics, therefore, demands of the media to atone for the sin of soiling the fair name of Sikhs. The minimum it should do is to tender an unqualified apology to the Sikhs.
Ambassador: Very correct.
Journalist; Don’t you think Indian government would use every possible mean to restrain the media in foreign countries from accepting its mistake as it would expose to the World the depth of mean lies that government had been spinning to justify its attack on the Golden Temple and to tarnish the Sikh image.
Ambassador: Not in national interest to disclose.
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Journalist; Mr. Ambassador, Sant Longowal signed the accord in Delhi to end the Sikh struggle launched for autonomy and for ensuring the separate entity of the Sikh nation.
Ambassador: That’s right.
Journalist: It has become clear now that Longowal was persuaded by Balwant Singh and Surjit Singh Barnala to accept the fraudulent accord without even consulting other important leaders like Parkash Singh Badal and Gurcharan Singh Tohra.
Ambassador: Very correct.
Journalist; Don’t you think Balwant Singh and Barnala obliged the government in return for crores of Industrial loans that were given to them for their projects?
Ambassador: Not in national interest to disclose.
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Journalist; Mr. Ambassador, Government has reached an agreement with Assam Student leaders.
Ambassador: That’s right.
Journalist: According to the agreement all the “Foreigners” who had settled in Assam after March, 1971 will be asked to leave the state.
Ambassador: Very correct.
Journalist: By the same logic will the government also ask U.P. and Bihar Bhayias who were settled in Punjab and Chandigarh to increase the Hindi pricking population, to leave for their own home state?
Ambassador: Not in national interest to disclose.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 23, 1985
