Senior lawyer H S Phoolka said BJP gave him the video tape of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. Senior lawyer H S Phoolka said BJP gave him the video tape of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Senior lawyer H S Phoolka Sunday claimed that the BJP provided him the video tape of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in which the latter is allegedly ‘justifying’ the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

“Yes it is Doordarshan’s tape. The logo of Doordarshan is visible. I have procured it recently,” Phoolka told The Indian Express.

Asked if the BJP had used him to launch a proxy attack on the Congress, Phoolka said, “I think otherwise. I think I have been using BJP for my purpose. I wanted the video tape and they (BJP) gave it to me.”

On the alleged parallel role of the RSS along with Congress in the ‘84 riots, he said, “It does not mean that we should stop pursuing the case (against the Congress). RSS and Congress are two sides of the same coin. Both should be punished. They have been escaping (from punishment) by accusing each other.”

“Both BJP and Congress are intolerant. But my point is that they (BJP) had the tape and they would have released it otherwise too,” said Phoolka when asked if holding over of tape to him by BJP has something to do with the ongoing debate over ‘intolerance’ in the country.

‘Capt should explain clean chit to Cong leaders’

“Captain Amarinder Singh had given a clean chit to Congress leaders Jagdish Tytler and Kamal Nath. While those affected by the riots have been seeking punishment for both leaders, Amarinder gave statements in their favour. He even termed the allegation against Tytler as purely political and these allegations surfaced only much later, when Tytler contested elections in 1996,” alleged Phoolka.

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