Operation Blue Star was Indira Gandhi's biggest mistakes !!
As some of you may know that Millitant Sikhs- Bhindrawal & associate had occupied the Golden Temple and were using it as a base for their Khalistan Movement .Mediation had not worked for Indira Gandhi!!
Indira Gandhi before ordering the army to storm the Temple should have anticpated how much it will anger the Sikhs . And this would lead to possible riots . This is exactly what had happened . The whole operation should have been done so that the common man would not be hurt . But that did not happen .Loss of lives was too much.
Sadly these led to Indira Gandhi's assasination few months later and followd by Anti Sikh feelings and riots where innocent Sikhs were attacked .
I was at that time a kid , i remember the fear in every one's heart . My mother is Sikh , although married to a Hindu . The fear in the heart of common man and hatred in the eyes of non - Sikh is only too obvious to say that the whole Operation was the worst political mistake of Indira G's life .
JK - the website offered by you is a biased one . You could offer some other website that has a link to one of the Major Indian Newspapers .
Its making Bhindrawal sound like some great leader , while he was a mere Terrorist demanding a seperate State called Khalistan !!( P.S -Not all Sikhs agreed with his philosphy )
Here's another link :http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/sep/14pca.htm
Edited by Aparna_BD - 20 years ago