Operation Blue Star (3– 6 June 1984) was an Indian military operation ordered by Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India, to remove Sikh separatists who were amassing weapons in the Golden Temple in Amritsar.The operation was launched in response to a deterioration of law and order in the Indian state of Punjab.
The operation was carried out by Indian army troops with tanks and armoured vehicles.Militarily successful, the operation aroused immense controversy, and the government's justification for the timing and style of the attack are still under debate.Operation Bluestar was included in the Top 10 Political Disgraces by India Today magazine.
Official reports put the number of deaths among the Indian army at 83 and the number of civilian deaths at 492, though independent estimates ran much higher.
The impact of the military assault, its aftermath and the increased tensions led to assaults on members of the Sikh community within India and uproar amongst Sikhs worldwide. In India, many Sikhs resigned from armed and civil administrative office and returned their government awards. Revenge for the desecration of the Sikh shrine was pledged by some in the Sikh community, which led to the assassination of Indira Gandhi by two of her Sikh bodyguards on 31 October 1984 and of General Vaidya in 1986.
On this incident which shook the Punjab abd sikh community. After 29 years, The hindu has published an aricle written by Chander Suta Dogra,...
pl read it..it is an untold story about that operation...
Operation Blue Star – the untold story | The Hindu
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