The Congress leadership is "very upset" with former Home Minister P Chidambaram for his remarks on 'Operation Blue Star', and is of the view that senior leaders should be careful before making public statements that create embarrassment for the party, party sources said on Sunday.

Chidambaram, while speaking at a literary event in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, on Saturday, said that Operation Blue Star was "wrong" and the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi "paid the price with her life for the mistake".

Party sources said the Congress leadership is of the view that "senior leaders, who have got everything from the Congress party, should be more careful in making statements that create embarrassment for the party. And, this cannot become a habit".

They said senior leaders should make public

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