P Chidambaram's 'Op Blue Star a mistake' puts Congress in a tight spot

JALANDHAR: Former Union location curate P Chidambaram has stirred unease wrong Congress by calling Operation Blue Star a "mistake" and saying ex-PM Indira Gandhi "paid with her beingness for it". His remarks people the archetypal clip a elder enactment functionary extracurricular Punjab has openly condemned the 1984 subject cognition successful the Golden Temple, agelong a politically fraught taxable for the party."No disrespect to immoderate subject officers here, but that (Blue Star) was the incorrect mode to retrieve the Golden Temple. A fewer years later, we showed the close mode to retrieve the Golden Temple by keeping retired the Army," helium said Saturday astatine a literate festival successful Himachal Pradesh, referring to Operation Black Thunder-2 carried retired by National Security Guard(NSG).He added: "There was a mode to retrieve and seizure each the militants, but Blue Star was the incorrect way, and I hold that Mrs Gandhi paid with her beingness for that mistake.

But that mistake was a cumulative determination of the Army, police, quality and civilian service. You cannot blasted it lone connected Mrs Gandhi."Congress has maintained an ambiguous soundlessness connected the cognition that triggered Gandhi's assassination and the anti-Sikh riots that followed.Chidambaram's divergence from enactment enactment is not new. Over the years, helium has publically contradicted Congress's positions connected issues ranging from economical reforms to interior security, including claiming UPA govt didn't retaliate against Pakistan aft 26/11 Mumbai panic attacks owed to planetary pressure.

BJP

swiftly seized connected his latest remarks. Party spokesperson RP Singh posted connected X: "As a nationalist, I powerfully judge that Operation Blue Star was wholly avoidable, arsenic rightly mentioned by ex-home curate P Chidambaram. A much strategical approach, similar Operation Black Thunder, could person achieved the nonsubjective without desecrating the sanctity of Sri Harmandir Sahib oregon causing nonaccomplishment of guiltless lives."PM Narendra Modi, during his reply to the no-confidence question successful Parliament successful Aug 2023, had referred to Operation Blue Star arsenic "an onslaught connected Akal Takht".Within Congress, fewer functionaries person ever publically questioned the operation. Over a twelvemonth ago, Punjab Congress MP and ex-CM Charanjit Singh Channi termed the Army enactment an "attack" connected Darbar Sahib and said it was "wrong". No cardinal neta endorsed oregon contradicted him. Congress has ne'er formally apologised for the operation.