Senior Congress leader and former home minister P Chidambaram has said that the Operation Blue Star of June 1984 was a \"mistake\" and former prime minister Indira Gandhi \"paid for it with her life.\"

Chidambaram was speaking at a discussion on journalist Harinder Baweja's book They Will Shoot You, Madam, at the Khushwant Singh Literature Festival in Himachal Pradesh's Kasauli on Saturday when he made the remarks.

\"No disrespect to any military officers here but that (Blue Star) was a wrong way to retrieve the Golden Temple. Few years later, we showed the right way to retrieve the Golden Temple by keeping out the Army,\" he said.

He further added that Gandhi cannot be solely blamed for the \"mistake\". \"Blue Star was the wrong way and I agree that Mrs Gandhi paid with her life for th

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