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Operation Blue Star was a military operation by the Indian Armed Forces conducted between 1 and 10 June 1984 to remove Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and other Sikh militants from the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), a holy site of Sikhism, and its adjacent buildings.
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Operation Blue Star was a large Indian military operation carried out between 1 and 8 June 1984, ordered by Indira Gandhi to remove leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his militant Sikh followers from the buildings of the Harmandir Sahib complex in Amritsar, Punjab. [1]
Operation Blue Star was militarily successful, but it is criticized by many for being badly planned. It is considered to be a political disaster and an unprecedented act in modern Indian history, [ 33 ] and was followed by events like the assassination of Indira Gandhi , the assassination of A. S. Vaidya (the-then Army Chief), the subsequent ...
The operation was launched in response to the deterioration of law and order in the State of Punjab. The roots of Operation Blue Star can be traced from the Khalistan Movement. The targets of the government, within the Harmandir Sahib temple complex, were led by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and former Maj. Gen. Shabeg Singh. Maj. Gen.
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The planning for Operation Blue Star was initiated long before Bhindranwale had relocated to the complex in December 1983 and begun to fortify it [215] [216] running sand-model exercises for the attack [217] [218] [219] on a Golden Temple replica in the Doon Valley over 18 months prior, [215] [216] and over 125 other Sikh shrines were ...