India, May 4 -- Facing a sharp question on the Congress's role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, senior party leader Rahul Gandhi said a lot of these "mistakes" happened when he was "not there", but added that he was ready to take responsibility for "everything the Congress party has ever done wrong in its history".

The question was posed to Gandhi at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs in the US two weeks ago during an interaction.

During a Q&A session, a Sikh man referred to Rahul Gandhi's earlier statement that "the fight in India is about whether a Sikh is going to be allowed to wear a turban, whether a Sikh will be allowed to wear a kada or go to the Gurudwara."

He said the Anandpur Sahib Resolution...