OPERATION BLUE STAR

                         

Operation Blue Star was a military operation which was ordered by Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister, to remove Sikh militants who were amassing weapons in the Harmandir Sahib Complex (Golden Temple) in Amritsar, in order to establish control over it. The operation was launched in response to a deterioration of law and order in Punjab.

                        ISSUE OF KHALISTAN

The Khalistan movement is a political nationalism movement which seeks to create a separate Sikh country, called Khālistān (punjabi: ਖਾਲਿਸਤਾਨ, "The land the Pure") in the Punjabi region of South Asia. The territorial definition of the proposed country ranges from the Punjab state of India to the great

STAGE 1:- After the partition was announced, the majority of the Sikhs migrated from the Pakistani part to the Indian province of Punjab, which then included the parts of the present-day Harayana and Himachal Pradesh. Following India's independence in 1947, The punjabi Movement led by the Akali Dal aimed at creation of a Punjabi-majority state (Suba) in the Punjab region of India in the 1950s. Concerned that creating a Punjabi-majority state would effectively mean creating a Sikh-majority state, the Indian government initially rejected the demand. After a series of protests, violent clampdowns on the Sikhs, and the Indo-pak the Government finally agreed to partition the state, creating a new Sikh-majority Punjab state and splitting the rest of the region to the states of Himachal Pradesh, the new state Haryana. Subsequently, the Sikh leaders started demanding more autonomy for the states, alleging that the Central government was discriminating against Punjab. Although the Akali Dal explicitly opposed the demand for an independent Sikh country, the issues raised by it were used as a premise for the creation of a separate country by the proponents of Khalistan.

STAGE 2:- In 1971, the Khalistan proponent Jagjit singh chuhan travelled to the United States. He placed an advertisement in The New York Times proclaiming the formation of Khalistan and was able to collect millions of dollars from the Sikh diaspora On 12 April 1980, he held a meeting with the Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi  before declaring the formation of "National Council of Khalistan", at Anandpur SahibHe declared himself as the President of the Council and Balbir Singh Sandhu as its Secretary General. In May 1980, Jagjit Singh Chauhan travelled to London and announced the formation of Khalistan. A similar announcement was made by Balbir Singh Sandhu, in Amritsar, who released stamps and currency of Khalistan. The inaction of the authorities in Amritsar and elsewhere was decried by Akali Dal headed by the Sikh leader 
Harchand singh 
Longowal as a political stunt by the Congress(1) party of Indira Gandhi
The Khalistan movement reached its zenith in the 1970s and 1980s, flourishing in the Indian state of Punjab which has a Sikh Majority people and has been the traditional homeland of the Sikh religion. Various pro-Khalistan outfits have been involved in a separatist movement against thegovernment of India  ever since. There are claims of funding from Sikhs outside india to attract young people into these pro-Khalistan militant groups.
In the 1980s, some of the Khalistan proponents turned to militancy, resulting in counter-militancy operations by the Indian security forces. In one such operation, Operation Blue Star (June 1984), the Indian Army led by the Sikh General 
Kuldip singh brarc forcibly entered the Harminder sahib  (the Golden Temple) to overpower the armed militants and the religious leader Jarnail singh. The handling of the operation, damage to the Akal takht (which is one of the five seats of temporal physical religious authority of the Sikhs) and loss of life on both sides, led to widespread criticism of the Indian Government. Many Sikhs strongly maintain that the attack resulted in the desecration of the holiest Sikh shrine. The Indian Prime MinisterIndira Gandhi was assasinated by her two Sikh bodyguards in retaliation. Following her death, thousands of Sikhs were massacred in the 1984 anti sikh riots  termed as a genocide by the Sikh groups.
In January 1986, the Golden Temple was occupied by militants belonging to All India Sikh Student Federation and Damdami Taskal On 26 January 1986, the gathering passed a resolution (gurmattā) favouring the creation of Khalistan. Subsequently, a number of rebel militant groups in favour of Khalistan waged a major insurgency  against the government of India. Indian security forces suppressed the insurgency in the early 1990s, but Sikh political groups such as the kHALSA RAJ PARTY and SAD(A) continued to pursue an independent Khalistan through non-violent means. Pro-Khalistan organizations such as Dal Khalsa International  are also active outside India, supported by a section of the Sikh diaporsa

                DAY OF OPERATION BLUE STAR:-

                                                 ARMY INFORMATION:-

Indian Army

• Central Reserve Police Force
• Border Security Force
• Punjab Police

Supported by:
Special Air Force

10,000 armed troops. of 9th Division, National Security Guard 175 Parachute Regiment (India) and Artillery units
700 jawans of CRPF 4th Battallion and BSF 7th Battallion
150 Jawans of Punjab Armed Police and officers from Harmandir Police Station

MILITARY PLAN HOW TO ATTACK GOLDEN TEMPLE .

136 army jawans were were killesd killed and near about 500 civilians .

             INDIRA GANDHI ASSASINATION.

      October 31, 1984, New Delhi

Indira Gandhi, the 4th Prime Minister of india was assassinated at 9:20 AM on 31 October 1984, at her safdargar ganj road New Delhi  residence. She was killed by two of her body guards Satwnt Singh and Beant Singh in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star the India's army  June 1984 assault on the  in Amritsar which left the Sikh temple heavily damaged.

Beant Singh was one of Gandhi's favorite guards, whom she had known for ten years. The other assassin, Satwant Singh, was 21 years old when the assassination occurred and had been assigned to Gandhi's guard just five months before the assassination.

The assailants had fired 33 bullets at her, of which 30 had hit; 23 had passed through her body while seven were trapped inside. 

              ANTI SIKH RIOTS OF 1984 .

The 1984 anti-Sikhs riots or the 1984 Sikh Massacre were a series a series of programes against Sikhs in India by anti-Sikh mobs, in response to the assasination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. There were more than 8,000^[6] deaths, including 3,000 in Delhi.

GOLDEN TEMPLE AFTER OPERATION BLUE STAR.

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