Chidambaram calls Operation Blue Star a mistake that cost Indira Gandhi

New Delhi, 12/10: Senior Congress leader and former home minister P Chidambaram has said that the Operation Blue Star of June 1984 was a “mistake” and former prime minister Indira Gandhi “paid for it with her life.”

Chidambaram was speaking at a discussion on journalist Harinder Baweja’s book They Will Shoot You, Madam, at the Khushwant Singh Literature Festival in Himachal Pradesh’s Kasauli on Saturday when he made the remarks.