Congress senior leader and party’s Sri Anandpur Sahib candidate Manish Tewari on Thursday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission seeking action against those indulging in “false and malicious” propaganda against him and his family on social media.
In a video clip that was attached with Tewari’s tweet, it was alleged that his father late Professor VN Tewari was involved in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi and petrol was supplied from his filling station to “burn Sikhs”.
Describing the propaganda against him as “gutter and despicable”, the former
Union Minister said that his family never owned a petrol pump anywhere in the country and his father was assassinated by militants on April 3, 1984, six months before the riots. “My mother was a Jat Sikh. My father was an academic at Panjab University, Chandigarh, and my mother retired as the Dean of the PGI.