The Shiromani Akali Dal today termed as "full of hypocrisy" Rahul Gandhi's remarks that the Congress government tried to stop the anti-Sikh riots and accused it of shielding individuals involved in the "carnage" and delaying deployment the army.

"Total hogwash, full of hypocrisy. He says that Narendra Modi was responsible for Gujarat because he was the chief ,inister. Then what about Rahul Gandhi's father who was the prime minister when in Delhi the massacre of Sikhs was taking place," SAD leader Naresh Gujral said.

He said that in Gujarat there were riots but in Delhi "it was carnage of the Sikhs which was done by the Congress party and the government of the day did not call the army out for three days".

Gujral said his father former prime minister I K Gujral, General (retd) J S Aurora, Air Marshall Arjan Singh and others went repeatedly to the President and Home Minister.