On the anniversary of anti-Sikh riots today, Union Oil and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Puri recalled the horrors that the Sikh community faced at the hands of rampaging mobs out to revenge the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984.

Puri, then a first secretary posted in Geneva, today said he feared for the lives of his parents who lived in Delhi.

"Like all other members of my Sikh Sangat, this violence also came close to my house. I was then a young first secretary posted in Geneva and was extremely worried about the safety and wellbeing of my parents who lived in a DDA flat in SFS, Hauz Khas. They were rescued in time by my Hindu friend and taken to my grandparents’ first floor house in Khan Market even as unimaginable violence raged across Delhi and se

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