Seeking to justify the delay in hanging Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said he himself had not got justice in the assassination case of his father Rajiv Gandhi as yet but he believes in the justice system.

In an interaction with HN Bahuguna University students here on Tuesday, when Rahul was asked about the reason for the delay in Afzal Guru case, he cited his own case saying he was 14 years old when his grandmother late Indira Gandhi was killed with 32 bullets. There were 150 witnesses. Two persons were hanged but the case took seven years.

In Rajiv’s assassination case, 40 people were involved. It has been 17 years but “nobody has been punished”. “The issue is not that Afzal Guru has not been hanged; the issue is that our legal system works very slowly. My father was the Prime Minister. My grandmother was the Prime Minister. I was a son, a grandson. I have not got justice. But I believe in our justice system; you do get justice in India,” said Rahul.

During the interaction which lasted over an hour, the Amethi MP faced a volley of questions seeking to draw a comparison between him and his father. Rahul said he was only following in the footsteps of his father who was striving to involve even village youth in the political system.

“I do what my father used to do. Times are different now, so issues are also different. My father talked of computer. It is already there today. We are talking about nuclear energy, education. Our thinking is the same — how to take the youth along,” said the AICC general secretary.

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