Caught on the back foot over the conviction of one of its leaders, Sajjan Kumar, in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, the Congress on Monday said the issue should not be politicised and referred to the 2002 Gujarat riots in throwback to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) charges.
The conviction came on a day when senior Congress leader Kamal Nath is taking oath as the Madhya Pradesh chief minister.
The BJP and the Akali Dal have alleged that Nath played an active role in the 1984 riots that broke out after the assassination of then-prime minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984.