Watch: The shocking video where Rajiv Gandhi justified 1984 anti-Sikh riots

Recently, HS Phoolka, senior lawyer, AAP Leader and a social activist who has been fighting for the 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims released an old video which shows Rajiv Gandhi saying, "Bada ped girta hai, toh Dharti toh hilegi hi." (When a big tree falls, the earth will shake)

Phoolka also demanded that Rajiv Gandhi’s Bharat Ratna be taken back. He was quoted saying: “A Prime Minister, who justified genocide and whose party was responsible for the massacre, can't be a Bharat Ratna. We demand Rajiv Gandhi's Bharat Ratna's be taken back.” Phoolka said at a press conference that, “In 1984, on this day, nation's prime minister had justified the killing of 3, 000 Sikhs in his address at the boat club in national capital. He had said that when a big tree falls then the earth shakes. Instead of punishing the culprits of such mass murder, he was justifying it.”

He added, "He not only failed to take action against accused Tytler and HKL Bhagat, he made them ministers in his cabinet. On November 16, 1984, the Home Minister of the country announced that the death toll in the Sikh riots was 684. It took him three years to realise how many had died after a report which assessed that 2733 Sikhs were killed".

Phoolka also claimed that the Rajiv Gandhi-led Congress government had wiped the records of this remark. Watch the video below: