New Delhi, Oct. 31 -- Calling the 1984 anti-Sikh riots "cold-blooded killing of innocent" people, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday accused the then-Congress government of using the voters' list to mark the houses of the Sikh community.

The assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31 by her two Sikh security guards led to violent attacks on Sikhs and their properties in Delhi and other parts of the country. According to the Justice Nanavati Commission, which probed the riots, about 2146 people were killed in Delhi, while 586 people were said to have been killed in other parts of the country.

Speaking to ANI, Puri described the 1984 anti-Sikh riots as the "darkest chapter" in independent India's history....