lambasting the Congress for its nefarious designs against Sikh community, the ruling party in Punjab — Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) — said that the exposure has exposed “the real conspiracy behind Operation Bluestar”.
The revelations have “unearthed a major conspiracy of the Congress party which even went to the extent of compromising the national sovereignty for its political gains” said SAD secretary and spokesman Daljit Singh Cheema. He said that it is shocking to see that to solve an issue of internal security of Punjab state, the then Congress leader Indira Gandhi took the services of British forces.
“It amounts to distrust on the Indian forces as well as a compromise on the sovereignty of a democratic country,” he added. Cheema asked the Congress-led Central Government to “come clean on the unknown compulsions under which it had to take the help of forces from such a country against whom the nation had fought a battle of freedom for more than 200 years”.
“From the documents, it has become clear that the Congress government had made up its mind on Operation Bluestar as early as February in 1984 but it lingered on the action only to create circumstances to justify it,” he said.
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader asked the Congress to “make public all the relevant documents related with the Operation Bluestar and must tell the nation the truth behind the action whose wounds are still fresh in the minds of the Sikh community”.