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New Delhi: Leaders from the Sikh community staged a protest outside the official residence of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi after his remarks during his address in the United States sparked a political slugfest. The Sikh Prakoshth of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Delhi took out a protest march outside Rahul and Sonia Gandhi\u2019s residence over his remarks on the Sikh community, demanding an apology.<\/p>\n
BJP leader RP Singh and other Sikh leaders were detained by the Delhi police during the protest, reported ANI.<\/p>\n
During the protest, RP Singh said \u201cRahul Gandhi should apologise. He used the foreign land to defame India and gave a statement about Sikhs that Sikhs are not allowed to wear turban and go to Gurudwara\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
The protesters, including women, raising slogans and carrying placards tried to approach Gandhi\u2019s residence 10 Janpath, marching from Vigyan Bhawan but police stopped them.<\/p>\n
Apart from this, the protestors from the Sikh community slogans against Gandhi and demanded his apology for allegedly \u201chumiliating\u201d Sikhs, holding the Congress responsible for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in the country.<\/p>\n
This comes after Rahul Gandhi\u2019s statement on the Sikh community sparked a political slugfest in India, with BJP leaders saying that the Leader of Opposition defamed India on foreign land.<\/p>\n
While addressing a gathering of Indian Americans in Washington DC on Monday, Gandhi said that that in India, the fight is for a Sikh person to wear a turban and a kada and go the gurdwara. He also accused the RSS of considering some religions, languages and communities of being inferior to others.<\/p>\n
Gandhi asked the name of one of the Sikh attendees in the front rows during the programme. \u201cWhat is your name, brother with the turban,\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fight is about whether a Sikh is going to be allowed to wear his turban in India or a kada in India. Or he, as a Sikh, is going to be able to go to a gurdwara. That\u2019s what the fight is about. And not just for him, for all religions,\u201d said Gandhi.<\/p>\n
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