Congress Leadership ‘Deeply Upset’ Over Chidambaram’s ‘Operation Bluestar’ Comment
New Delhi: The Congress leadership is “very upset” over former Home Minister P Chidambaram’s comments on ‘Operation Bluestar’ and is of the view that senior leaders should be careful before making public statements that would cause embarrassment to the party, sources said on Sunday.
Addressing a literary event held in Kasauli on Saturday, Chidambaram said Operation Bluestar was “wrong” and the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi “paid for this mistake with her life”.
Party sources said the Congress leadership is of the view that “senior leaders who take everything from the Congress party should be more careful while making statements that will embarrass the party and this cannot become a habit.”
They said senior leaders should be careful while making public statements because their repeated statements create problems for the party and this is not true.
In the context of Chidambaram, who has made some statements that have embarrassed the party in the recent past, sources said, “The top leadership of the party is very upset and the entire party is very upset. The base of the party is worried why this is happening again and again.”
“There was a way to take back and capture all the militants but Operation Blue Star was the wrong way,” Chidambaram said at the Khushwant Singh Literary Festival in Kasauli, Himachal.
While chatting with journalist and author Harinder Baweja about his book ‘They Will Shoot You Madam: My Life Through Conflict’, Rajya Sabha MP Chidambaram said: “There was a way to take back and capture all the militants but Operation Blue Star was the wrong path and I agree that Mrs Gandhi paid for the mistake with her life, but the mistake was the total decision of Army, Intelligence, Police and Civil defense and it was entirely the decision of Bayan You can’t blame me.” Gandhi”.
Operation Blue Star was a military operation conducted between 1 June and 10 June 1984 to oust Damdami Taksal leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his militants from the Golden Temple premises in Amritsar. Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984.
