Veteran Congress leader and former Union minister P. Chidambaram remarked on Sunday that the 'Operation Blue Star' carried out under the instruction of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was a “wrong way” to secure the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

He said Gandhi had to pay the price for this mistake with her life.

The operation was launched by the Indian military in 1984 to flush out the armed Sikh separatists led by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale from inside the holy shrine.

"No disrespect to any service officers present here, but that was the wrong way to retrieve the Golden Temple. Three to four years later, we showed the right way to retrieve the Golden Temple, by keeping out the army," Chidambaram said while attending an event in Delhi.

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