He saw one Sikh policeman and one Hindu policeman with sten-guns, and knew Indira Gandhi would be assassinated…
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00:00Mrs. Gandhi will be assassinated within 10 days.
00:03This is the easiest and surest way I wrote.
00:30This is the easiest and surest way I wrote.
00:5021st of actually October, 10 days before Mrs. Gandhi was assassinated, I was coming
01:14from Kerala play site on Akbar road.
01:16I just about to take left turn on Savdarjang road towards Gymkhana club, I see two policemen,
01:24one Sikh and one Hindu.
01:25Savdarjang road is where the Prime Minister's home is.
01:27And one Akbar road is his office.
01:29So that confluence, there's a corner roundabout.
01:32And at that time, I saw two policemen, one Sikh and one Hindu, carrying stain guns.
01:38My wife was sitting in front of me and my son and daughter, my son still remembers what
01:42I said.
01:43I said, who has brought the Sikh?
01:45This is the easiest.
01:46Because I knew that they were withdrawn.
01:48And it was a sudden shock.
01:49I said, this is the easiest and the surest way of Mrs. Gandhi getting assassinated.
01:54So next morning I come to office, it was 22nd of October.
02:00Then I started writing a note in hand.
02:03And then this, I saw this thing.
02:05I said, Mrs. Gandhi will be assassinated within 10 days.
02:10This is the easiest and surest way I wrote.
02:12Please do the following thing.
02:15Please remove these Sikhs forthwith, because tomorrow will be too late.
02:18I did not know how, when they will be killed.
02:21Then again I said, please inquire as to how they were brought and whom they have brought.
02:25So I have written that note.
02:26I told my secretary, Sita Lakshmi, please prepare the envelope on that night to be opened
02:31by the addressee only.
02:35Then I thought that if they kill her today, then I will be held up that I was a part of
02:41the conspiracy and I am trying to do my Peshwandi.
02:45Then I said, Sita, I'll hand over personally to secretary to go.
02:47Then I shredded that thing.
02:49But you weren't the only one.
02:52Already an SOP was in place that the Sikh bodyguards had to be taken off.
02:57You've written about that.
02:58But Mrs. Gandhi brought them back.
03:00And then there was, Mr. Kao had said that two Sikh bodyguards not together at the same
03:06time.
03:07And then even that SOP was broken.
03:09I mean, a series of mistakes.