DSGMC Asks Indian Government to Apologize for Operation Bluestar  

NEW DELHI, India—On June 4, the DSGMC president Manjinder Singh Sirsa asked the Union government of India to tender an apology for the June-1984 holocaust committed on Sikh community by the Indian army under the code name ‘Operation Bluestar’. For the first time, he also defended the Sikh warriors headed by Sant Jarnail Singh Ji Khalsa Bhindranwale, who laid their lives while fighting against the Indian army.

Addressing a press conference, Sirsa said that there was nothing against Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and the Sikhs under his leadership just fought against the attack on the holiest Sikh shrine. “Let a probe be conducted into ‘Operation Bluestar’ to come out with the facts which have been buried under allegations,” he added.

Sirsa further said that a delegation of DSGMC will meet the Indian President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking constitution of a time bound commission of enquiry and then formation of a Special Investigation Team headed by a sitting Supreme Court judge for thoroughly probing the ‘Operation Bluestar’.

“Several innocent people were killed in the operation. Its timing was pre-planned to gain political benefits,” Sirsa said while asking the Indian government to make public all documents related to the operation to expose the people responsible for the killings of Sikhs.

“It is most unfortunate that even 35 years after the attack on the most sacred place of humanity, successive governments at the Centre failed to apologize to the Sikh community,” he said demanding an apology from the Centre.

People talk of apology over Jallianwala Bagh tragedy, but Sikhs and all peace loving people feel that the Indian government owes an apology for Operation Bluestar, which was an attack on a religious shrine and resulted in deaths of innocent people, he added.