Daijiworld Media Network - Kasauli

Kasauli, Oct 12: Former Union Minister P Chidambaram said that Operation Blue Star, carried out in 1984 to flush out militants from the Golden Temple in Amritsar, was the “wrong way” to handle the situation, adding that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi “paid with her life for that mistake.”

Speaking at the Khushwant Singh Literature Festival in Kasauli on Saturday, where he moderated a discussion on journalist Harinder Baweja’s book ‘They Will Shoot You, Madam’, the senior Congress leader noted that the decision to storm the shrine was not Gandhi’s alone.

“It was a cumulative decision of the army, police, intelligence, and civil service. We can’t blame it only on Ms Gandhi,” Chidambaram said. “No disrespect to any officers, but that was the wrong w

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