In a major embarrassment to the Congress party, Congress leader and former Union Minister Salman Khurshid made a sensational admission when a student of Aligarh Muslim University posed a query on massacre of Muslims in Hashimpura, Maliana, Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Moradabad, Bhagalpur and Aligarh riots besides the demolition of Babri Masjid during the Narsimha Rao government.
