India, Nov. 11 -- The Bhartiya Janata Party greeted Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi's memoir "Belonging: A Journey of Love" with a barrage of criticism, primarily over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, alleging that she tried to give a clean-chit to the Gandhi family.

BJP leader HS Phoolka, a prominent lawyer who fought cases for Sikh victims, said in a press conference: "In her book, she (Sonia) has attempted to grant a self-clean chit to her own family-even regarding the massacre of Sikhs."

"In her book, she claims that on the night of October 31, Rajiv Gandhi instructed Army Chief General Vaidya to call in the army. She asserts that General Vaidya himself decided against using the army units stationed near Delhi-purport...