Scars of Operation Bluestar
It has been 25 years since prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated on Oct 31, 1984 perhaps, as a consequence of Operation Bluestar at Amritsar's Golden Temple four months earlier. Events of those days are still fresh in memory.
After Operation Bluestar ended and the complex was still in a state of chaos and disorder, then president Zail Singh visited the place June 8, 1984. Given the impact the incident had on the psyche of people in Punjab and elsewhere, the authorities were in a hurry to clean up the place, withdraw the army and hand over the Golden Temple complex to the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC).
Image: Sikh priest Jaswinder Singh sits behind the Sikh Holy Book asSikh Sewadar decorate during a 'Jalau', a splendour show of Sikhism'ssymbolic items, is displayed inside the Golden Temple in Amritsar onJune 11, 2009.
Text: PPS Gill/ IANS
Images: AFP
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