The BJP hit out at the Congress after former Union home minister P Chidambaram’s remarks on ‘Operation Blue Star’ and said history must record the truth that it was not a national necessity but a “political misadventure” by Indira Gandhi.

Will the Congress now act against Chidambaram ”for speaking the truth and exposing their false narrative?” the ruling party asked.

This came after Chidambaram, while speaking at a literary event in Kasauli on Saturday, said that Operation Blue Star, which was launched in June 1984 to clear the Golden Temple of armed terrorists led by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, was ”wrong” and the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ”paid the price with her life for the mistake”.

“No disrespect to any military officers here, but that (Blue Star) was the wrong way to retr

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