Indira Gandhi Paid with Her Life for Operation Blue Star "Mistake": Chidambaram - The Statesman

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…

Operation Blue Star a mistake, Indira Gandhi paid for it with her life: Chidambaram

Operation Blue Star was a military operation held between June 1-10, 1984, to remove Damdami Taksal leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his militants from the Golden Temple in Amritsar

Chidambaram Terms Operation Blue Star a Mistake

He said that while there was a way to capture all the militants without military intervention, the decision to storm the shrine in 1984 was a “cumulative mistake”

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.”

'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.