US EditionIndira Gandhi Paid with Her Life for Operation Blue Star "Mistake": Chidambaram - The Statesman
P Chidambaram said the 1984 military operation was a collective mistake involving multiple agencies and that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi paid with her life for it.
- At the Khushwant Singh Literature Festival on Saturday, P Chidambaram called Operation Blue Star the `wrong way` and said former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi paid with her life for it.
- Launched on June 1, 1984, Operation Blue Star ran until June 8, 1984, using tanks and heavy artillery to evict Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale from the Golden Temple, causing hundreds of deaths.
- Chidambaram said the decision was cumulative, involving the Army, police, intelligence and civil services, and argued the Army should have been kept out, citing Operation Black Thunder as a better approach.
- On October 31, 1984, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards at her New Delhi residence, triggering anti-Sikh riots across India where thousands were killed.
- Chidambaram said the Khalistan cry has largely faded in present-day Punjab, while economic distress and illegal migrants from Punjab remain the state's real problems.
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Chidambaram calls Operation Blue Star 'a mistake', Congress unhappy
Shimla: Congress leader P Chidambaram said Operation Blue Star was not the right way to capture militants holed up in the Golden Temple in 1984, due to which the then prime minister, Indira Gandhi, “paid with her life”. “There was a way to retrieve and capture all militants but Operation Blue Star was the wrong way and I agree that Mrs Gandhi paid with her life for the mistake but the mistake was cumulative decision of the Army, intelligence, po…
Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister P. Chidambaram has said that Operation Blue Star was the wrong approach to reclaiming the Golden Temple. He said that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi paid the price for this mistake with her life.
Indira Gandhi paid with her life for operation Blue Star "Mistake": Chidambaram - The Statesman
Chidambaram said, “No disrespect to any military officers here, but that (Blue Star) was the wrong way to retrieve the Golden Temple. A few years later, we showed the right way to retrieve the Golden Temple by keeping the Army out.”
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The Economic Times'Op Blue Star was wrong... Indira Gandhi paid with her life': Congress MP P Chidambaram
P. Chidambaram criticized Operation Blue Star in 1984 as the "wrong way" to retrieve the Golden Temple, stating Indira Gandhi paid with her life for the "mistake." He contrasted it with Operation Black Thunder, which he deemed the "right way" by keeping the Army out of the Sikh worship place.
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