India, Nov. 2 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday carried out a protest march against the Congress in west Delhi's Hari Nagar, targeting the party over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, as the INDIA bloc held a rally at Ramlila Maidan in central Delhi against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

The BJP protest was led by Union petroleum minister Hardeep Puri, who said the violence unleashed in Delhi on November 1, 1984, was not spontaneous anger but a "well-planned massacre". BJP leaders said the Congress should apologise to the Sikh community for choosing such a sensitive date for its political rally.

"There has been a concerted effort ...