Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri, who recently announced that he will soon be working on his next feature film, titled The Delhi Files after the success of his recent movie The Kashmir Files said 1984 anti-Sikh riots is a dark chapter in Indian history.
"The way the entire Punjab terrorism situation was handled was inhuman and it was purely for vote bank politics. That is why terrorism was cultivated by the Congress party in Punjab," he said.
The director claimed that the Congress created terrorism and destroyed it. “Then they killed lots of innocent people and they covered it up. Till date, there has been no justice, what can be worse than that," he said.
"But if history is taught to people, facts are told to people then people stand up and they seek justice. That is when governments bend down," news agency ANI quoted him as saying.
The director, who faced criticism from some quarters for the problematic politics in The Kashmir Files, said, history should be evidence fact-based. "It should not be narrative-based. In India, the problem is that a lot of people write history based on narrative or their political agenda of India mostly has been the Western secular agenda."
The great Hindu civilization is always ignored, and it is made to believe that we are weak people and everything we have learned is from Western rulers or the invaders, he said.
The director said his upcoming movie will tell viewers a lot of truth about Tamil Nadu as well. "It is not about Delhi, it just showed how Delhi has been destroying 'Bharat' for so many years," he added.
