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an> Title : Regarding personal statement under rule 199 by members who resigned as Minister.     SHRI JAGDISH TYTLER (DELHI SADAR): Mr. Speaker Sir, I sincerely thank you for acceding to my request to allow me to make a statement in this august House, to bring out the circumstances which made me submit my unconditional resignation from the Council of Ministers led by the hon. Prime Minister so that the people of this country at large and the people of my constituency, who voted me to this august House, the Sikh Community in its entirety, and those among the Sikh Community that suffered during the shameful riots in 1984, may come to know of the facts concerning me and my involvement there.  I can very well realize the pain and sorrow and agony of the victims of the 1984 riots, for I have seen my own father cut to pieces during the exodus of partition.             Sir, I must also be permitted to say that what happened in the aftermath of the assassination of Shrimati Indira Gandhiji on the 31st of October, 1984 has left scars which generations to come will not easily forget, and I stand together with the hon. Prime Minister and Shrimati Sonia Gandhiji, in their commitment and their sincere efforts to assuage the feelings and compensate all those who have suffered.              The subject is the allegation involving me along with those who incited those rights.  Every individual goes through moments of introspection and today, when my name has been dragged into it, I feel sad and hurt, because all along these last twenty-one years my political adversaries made their efforts to involve me.  But the numerous Commissions and the inquiries including the investigations by the CBI, even whenever there was a non-Congress Government, negated all those allegations in their totality.  … (Interruptions) SHRI HARIN PATHAK (AHMEDABAD): They have not said it. … (Interruptions)

MR. SPEAKER: He is giving his statement.  You are not bound by it. This is not right under the rules. … (Interruptions)

SHRI HARIN PATHAK : He is justifying it. … (Interruptions)

It was his decision. … (Interruptions)

MR. SPEAKER: You are all very senior Members.   He is entitled to speak.  How can I stop him?  … (Interruptions)

SHRI HARIN PATHAK : He himself resigned. … (Interruptions)

MR. SPEAKER: Shri Jagdish Tytler, please go on. Nothing else will be recorded except the speech of Shri Jagdish Tytler. (Interruptions) …* MR. SPEAKER: I am allowing him under the rules.  Prof. Vijay Kumar Malhotra, you know very well that he is entitled to make a statement under the rules. … (Interruptions)