Manmohan, Rahul pay tribute to Indira Gandhi on 33rd death anniversary
Manmohan, Rahul pay tribute to Indira Gandhi on 33rd death anniversary
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New Delhi [India], October 31 : Former prime minister Manmohan Singh and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday paid flowery homage to former and first female prime minister of India, Indira Gandhi, on her 33rd death anniversary at her commemorative plaq3ue, Shakti Sthal, in New Delhi.

 

Indira Gandhi was gun down to death on October 31, 1984.

1984 was the same year when she had launched 'Operation Blue Star' to overwhelm secessionist movement in Punjab and had sent Army forces into the Golden Temple of Amritsar, Punjab.

The first week of June 1984 was a noteworthy moment in India’s political history. Under the orders of the then prime minister, Indira Gandhi, the Indian military squalled into the premises of the Golden Temple in Amritsar to drive out the Sikh extremist religious leader, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, and his armed supporters. Bhindranwale in the past two years had made his political claims very lucid. He wanted the Indian government to get ahead of the Anandpur Resolution, and thereby agree to the formation of a separate state of Khalistan for Sikhs. Since 1982, the deep-seated leader of Sikhism had managed to add enough support for his cause and by mid-1983 had set up a base inside the Golden Temple complex, with ammunition and his supporters. The Operation Blue Star was launched between June 1 and June 6, 1984, with the aim of getting rid of Bhindranwale and his unconventional demands.

The former prime minister was largely slammed for announcing the Emergency in India in 1975. This period of 21 months is rottenly marked as the 'dark age of independent India.'

 

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