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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandak Committee (SGPC), the assemblage liable for the absorption of humanities Gurdwaras, connected Sunday (October 12, 2025) took a excavation astatine the Congress, saying the precocious Prime Minister Indira Gandhi went up with ‘Operation Blue Star for governmental reasons’.
BJP nationalist spokesperson R.P. Singh said Operation Blue Star was wholly avoidable, arsenic rightly mentioned by erstwhile Home Minister P. Chidambaram.
“Mrs. Indira Gandhi, for governmental reasons, chose the way of confrontation for electoral gain, seeking to ignite nationalist fervour earlier the 1984 parliamentary elections by portraying the astir patriotic assemblage of India, the Sikhs, arsenic anti-national. In doing so, she got trapped successful her ain governmental web and yet paid for it with her life,” helium said successful a statement, adding, “Operation Blue Star was not a nationalist necessity; it was a governmental misadventure.”
The absorption came aft elder Congress person Mr. Chidambaram said, “There was a mode to retrieve and seizure each militants, but Operation Blue Star was the incorrect way, and I hold that Mrs. Gandhi paid with her beingness for the mistake but the mistake was cumulative determination of the Army, intelligence, constabulary and civilian defence and you cannot wholly blasted Mrs. Gandhi.” He was speaking astatine the Khushwant Singh Literary Festival successful Himachal Pradesh’s Kasauli connected Saturday.
SGPC caput Gurcharan Singh Grewal said the remark made by Mr. Chidambaram “speaks astir the truth; helium has revealed the truth, which we welcome. But we disagree erstwhile helium mentions that the enactment connected Dartbar Sahib wasn’t solely Indira Gandhi’s decision. It doesn’t marque immoderate consciousness due to the fact that Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister… The enactment [Operation Blue Star] was done by her to reclaim mislaid governmental ground.”
