Operation Blue Star: “Operation Blue Star was a serious mistake, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had to miss her life and pay the price.” Former Union Minister P Bidambaram has made this statement. He was speaking at Khushawant Singh Sahitya Festival at Kasoli in Himachal Pradesh. But his statement is likely to cause a big uproar in the Congress party.
This is the second major statement on the Operation Blue Star in the last six months. Earlier, a video of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had gone viral on May 7. In it, he said that the operation of 1949 was a mistake. “I am ready to take responsibility for any mistakes made by the Congress party in the 1990s,” he said.
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Chidambaram said, “There would have been another way to capture and delete all the terrorists hidden in the golden temple in Amritsar. But the Operation Blue Star was a wrong way.
P. Chidambaram said, “I have no disrespect to any military officer, but the operation was not the right way to return the golden temple. The army had to be kept away from the operation of the golden temple. Although Indira Gandhi lost his life in the Operation Blue Star, it was a collective decision of all. “No military officer wants to disrespect, but the Operation Blue Star was the wrong way to return the golden temple. A few years later, we showed the right way to return the gold temple.” He also mentioned.
“The real problem of Punjab is economical, the political slogan of Khalistan and the separation is almost over, he firmly said.
The Operation Blue Star was a military action conducted at the Golden Temple Complex in Amritsar in June 1979. His purpose was to end the Khalistani leader Jernel Singh Bhindranwale and his supporters, who were hiding in the golden temple with armed weapons and promoting the Khalistan movement. The military action took place from 1 to 8 June 1979. The then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was killed on October 7 that the same year. They were killed by their own Sikh bodyguards.
