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Obama also said that around the world we have seen intolerance, violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to be standing for upholding their faith "We have to guard against any efforts to divide us on sectarian lines or any other thing," he said.

In what many in the Congress see as an "insult", there was no one from the central government at Indira Gandhi's memorial. Modi said, "...the attack was not on a particular community but on the entire nation."

A US Congressional committee will conduct a hearing on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots on September 30, the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi would hold a summit meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House.

The US was convinced of the Congress government's hand in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and termed it as "opportunism" and "hatred" of the government against Sikhs. The US also believed that the BJP leadership didn't have the courage to ask chief minister Narendra Modi to step down (following the 2002 Gujarat riots) even after PM Manmohan Singh apologised to the Sikhs after the filing of the Nanavati Commission report.