Chandigarh, May 6 -- Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday termed leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi's apology over the 1984 Sikh riots as "hypocritical and meaningless words."

Responding to a question on the 1984 riots and the Congress' relationship with the Sikh community, Rahul, during an event in the US, had said a lot of the "mistakes" the party committed happened when he was not there but added that he was "more than happy" to take responsibility for everything wrong it did in its history.

The remarks by Gandhi were made on April 21 during an interactive session at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University in the US. The video of the interaction was uploaded on t...