Former Union Minister P Chidambaram Saturday said that Operation Blue Star — the June 1984 Army action at the Golden Temple in Amritsar to evict militants – was “the wrong way” and that then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi “paid with her life for that mistake”.

The former Home and Finance Minister made the comments while moderating a discussion on ‘They Will Shoot You, Madam’, a book by journalist Harinder Baweja, at the Khushwant Singh Literature Festival in Himachal Pradesh’s Kasauli.

Chidambaram was responding to a statement by Baweja that Indira Gandhi paid with her life for her decision on Operation Blue Star.

“No disrespect to any military officers here but that was a wrong way to retrieve the Golden Temple. Few years later, we showed the right way to retrieve the Golden Temple by ke

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