Tytler says he will apologise for the anti-Sikh riots

New Delhi, Apr 10 (PTI) Jagdish Tytler, whose Lok
Sabha poll candidature has been withdrawn by the Congress in
the wake of the controversy over the anti-Sikh riots issue,
has said he will apologise "a thousand times" for what
happened in 1984.

"I will apologise because it happened in our time. I
would apologise a thousand times for what happened to the
whole Sikh community... I would say whatever happened was
shameful," he told private television channel NDTV.

"I would say the people, the administration and the
governor, who should have controlled (the situation), did not
control at that time," Tytler alleged.

A worried Congress had yesterday withdrawn its
controversial leaders Tytler and Sajjan Kumar from the
electoral fray as the ghost of the 1984 riots returned to
haunt the party over their alleged role in the carnage.

The Congress decision came amid a raging controversy
over fielding the two leaders, whose names figured as accused
in the riots, accentuated by the incident of throwing of
shoe by a Sikh journalist at Home Minister P Chidambaram at
AICC press conference on Tuesday. PTI RAI
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