On Rahul Gandhi's appeal ahead of his Ramlila Maidan rally, West Bengal Minister Dilip Ghosh says,
"...For so long, they have ruined the markets in the name of protests, bringing commerce to a standstill. Businessmen are worried. And now, they are suddenly calling for people to shop. But who is actually going to shop? They pay people to show up! It would certainly be a good thing if they did some shopping...".
AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi says, "There is a minister (Congress), Satish Jarkiholi, calling SIR good.
Meanwhile, Priyank Kharge says the opposite... Congress is calling out SIR across the nation. In my constituency—Hyderabad—Congress members went to the Election Commission and demanded that voters' names be removed...
You have one tune in Hyderabad, another in Bengaluru, and yet another in Delhi...".
On the INDI-alliance rally, Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal says,
"... They have planned a protest demonstration. Even the leaders of their own allied parties do not want it to take place on November 1, as that date is remembered as a highly sensitive day in Delhi.
Indira Gandhi was assassinated on October 31, 1984. Following that, the carnage that unfolded in Delhi on November 1—the atrocities committed against our Sikh people and the bloodshed—is the very day Rahul Gandhi has chosen. He lacks even the slightest bit of sensitivity.
Sikh representatives have also cautioned him, urging him to reschedule the protest... Furthermore, trade organisations in Delhi have written to him and even visited his residence, requesting a change of date, given that the festival of Diwali is approaching... They wait for this time all year round.
"They are wholesale traders... If you gather hundreds of thousands of people, the markets will be disrupted, shops will have to close, and customers who wish to purchase goods from them will be unable to reach them... He simply refuses to listen...".
Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said, "November 1st, marks 42 years since Delhi entered some of its darkest days. For Sikh families, this date carries painful memories of lost loved ones and homes turned to ashes.
Rising above politics, I want to share my thoughts on a human level about what happened to innocent people in Delhi during that time.
The one man who, in my view, spent more than four decades helping the survivors pursue justice, along with their unwavering determination and the lawyers who stood beside them to keep their cases alive is my colleague and good friend, (Harvinder Singh) Phoolka ji."
Puri also said, "The assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ji was a tragedy, but nothing could ever justify the collective punishment inflicted upon the Sikh community that followed.
The official recorded death toll of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence across India stands at 3,325, with 2,733 of those deaths occurring in Delhi alone.
"These mass killings continued in Delhi from November 1st to 4th, and behind every single number was a family carrying an unbearable loss."
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