India, Oct. 24 -- Senior BJP leader and MP Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday criticised Congress MP Rahul Gandhi for planning a protest rally in Delhi on November 1, saying the date is sensitive for the Sikh community.

November 1 is the date when, in 1984, Delhi and several other cities saw the anti-Sikh riots, a mass targeting of the Sikh community. The INDIA bloc, led by Gandhi, has scheduled a large rally at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan on November 1 to protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi, Prasad questioned why Gandhi wanted to hold the protest on that day. He alleged ...