The party claims that an amendment seeking revocation of former Prime Minister's Bharat Ratna was added to a resolution, but it wasn't passed
The party seemed divided over the issue in the House. Pic/PTI
MLA Jarnail Singh, who moved the motion inside the Assembly, confirmed that a demand of striping Rajiv Gandhi of Bharat Ratna was indeed mentioned in the document. "Rajiv Gandhi had said 'the Earth shakes when a big tree falls', justifying the killings of thousands of Sikhs. We want the government to take back the Bharat Ratna from him," Singh told the media after the resolution was passed.
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