New Delhi, Nov. 1 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took out a march in West Delhi on Sunday, targeting the Congress 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.

BJP leaders demanded an apology from the Congress for holding its rally on a day that they said was marked by an escalation in violence against Sikhs following the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The march was led by Union cabinet minister Hardeep Singh Puri, who said the violence unleashed in Delhi on November 1, 1984, was not "spontaneous" but a "well-planned" mas...