'अकेले इंदिरा गांधी ने नहीं लिया था ऑपरेशन ब्लू स्टार का फैसला, लेकिन जान उनकी गई'

सोलन में खुशवंत सिंह लिटफेस्ट में ऑपरेशन ब्लू स्टार पर पी चिदंबरम का बड़ा बयान. आतंकवाद, पंजाब, कश्मीर, मणिपुर सहित कई मुद्दों पर चर्चा हुई.

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00:00Operation Blue Star then led to the next chapter of violence in Punjab because Mrs. Gandhi paid

00:11for her life because of that operation.

00:14She signed off on a very costly mission by engaging the army to carry out a task which

00:22and the problem, I am sorry to say, you are also from the Congress, but mixing religion

00:29and politics, trying to give wind to Bhindrawale's sails in the hope that, you know, he will help

00:38control the Akhalis was a supremely bad idea.

00:41Well, I am not sure whether that accusation against Mrs. Gandhi is correct, that she created

00:48I believe it to be correct, but we can agree to differ.

00:50I believe it to be correct, you have your sources.

00:53But then, no disrespect to any service officers, military officers here, but there was a wrong

01:03way to retrieve the Golden Temple.

01:07A few years later, I think three, four years later, we showed the right way to retrieve the

01:15Golden Temple by keeping out the army.

01:18You are talking about Black Thunder, the second operation.

01:21Yes.

01:22But I think, I think you have…

01:23I have delved into that also, but before…

01:25You have dealt with very sketchily and in passing, I don't think you did justice to

01:33Black Thunder and…

01:34No, I was there, I have covered every minute of it.

01:38But I, I have in fact…

01:41The book contains only…

01:42There is one chapter on Punjab, yes.

01:43There is one chapter on Punjab, yes.

01:45There was a way to retrieve and capture all the militants, but the blue star was the wrong way.

01:59And I agree, Mrs. Gandhi paid with her life for that mistake.

02:05But that mistake…

02:06And how is…

02:07But that mistake was a, but mistake was a cumulative decision of the army, the police,

02:17the intelligence and the civil service.

02:19You can't blame it only on Mrs. Gandhi, would you?

02:22Well, she was the Prime Minister, I don't think anybody else could have signed off on

02:27that mission.

02:28Again, I beg to differ with you, Mr. Chidamrum, but it was Mrs. Gandhi's decision…