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Ticking disconnected elder Congress person P. Chidambaram for his remarks connected Operation Bluestar, the Congress said that elder leaders should beryllium cautious earlier making nationalist statements that perchance could embarrass the party.
Sources said that some “rank and file” were agitated implicit Mr. Chidambaram’s comment.
Speaking astatine a lit festival connected Saturday (October 11, 2025), Mr. Chidambaram said Operation Blue Star was not the close mode to seizure militants holed up successful the Golden Temple successful 1984, owed to which the past Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, “paid with her life”.
“There was a mode to retrieve and seizure each militants, but Operation Blue Star was the incorrect way, and I hold that Ms. Gandhi paid with her beingness for the mistake, but the mistake was a cumulative determination of the Army, Intelligence, constabulary and civilian defence, and you cannot wholly blasted (just) Ms. Gandhi,” helium said.
Party sources said that the Congress enactment was of the presumption that “senior leaders who person received everything from the enactment should beryllium much cautious successful making nationalist statements that embarrass the party. This cannot go a habit.”
The apical enactment of the party, according to sources, was besides miffed with Mr. Chidambaram for his remarks connected the 26/11 attack. In a caller podcast, Mr. Chidambaram suggested that helium did deliberation astir subject retribution pursuing the Mumbai panic attack and discussed it with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, but the UPA authorities yet decided against specified a move.
