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Wrong to glorify terrorists, Amarinder says on Operation Bluestar
memorial
Tuesday June 05, 2012 09:04:32 PM,
IANS
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Sikh clergy lays foundation stone of Operation Bluestar memorial
To remember
those killed in the Indian Army's Operation Bluestar inside the
Golden Temple complex in 1984, the Sikh clergy Sunday laid the
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Amritsar: Punjab
Congress president Amarinder Singh Tuesday opposed the setting up
of a memorial to those killed in the Operation Bluestar inside the
Golden Temple complex here.
"Punjab cannot afford such things like a Bluestar memorial. The
last three decades have only seen the state's economic decline,"
Amarinder Singh told media here, 250 from Chandigarh, Tuesday.
He said it was "completely wrong" to set up the Operation Bluestar
memorial and the attempt to glorify Balwant Singh Rajoana, a
Babbar Khalsa International terrorist who has been convicted and
condemned to the gallows by the court for the assassination of
then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh Aug 31, 1995, was also
wrong.
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), which manages
all gurdwaras (Sikh temples) across Punjab, Haryana and Himachal
Pradesh, had last month announced that a memorial would be set up
inside the Golden Temple complex here to commemorate the 1984
Operation Bluestar by the army.
The foundation stone for the Operation Bluestar memorial was laid
by the Sikh clergy recently.
Amarinder said: "Setting up such memorials does not send the right
signals."
Amarinder Singh had resigned from the Congress party in 1984 and
later formed an Akali Dal after the Congress government at the
centre gave the go ahead for Operation Bluestar by the army to
flush out heavily armed terrorists, led by radical Sikh leader
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, from the Golden Temple complex. The
operation had led to heavy casualties on both sides.
Amarinder Singh was opposed to the Operation Bluestar action.
The 28th anniversary of the Operation Bluestar (June 6) falls
Wednesday.
He said that it was wrong to glorify Rajoana as he was involved in
the murder of a chief minister.
Amarinder Singh was among the Punjab leaders who had recently
opposed the death penalty for Rajoana.
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