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Operation Blue Star
At 12h40 the CRPF started firing at "Guru Ram Das Langar" building. The Border Security Force and the Central Reserve Police Force, under orders of the Army, started firing upon the Complex, in which at least 8 people died. -
Operation Blue Star
The Indian army had already sealed the international border from Kashmir to Ganga Nagar, Rajasthan. At least seven divisions of army were deployed in villages of Punjab. By the nightfall media and the press were gagged; the rail, road and air services in Punjab were suspended. Foreigners' and NRIs' entry was also banned . General Gauri Shankar was appointed as the Security Advisor to the Governor of Punjab. The water and electricity supply was cut off. -
Operation Blue Star
A complete curfew was observed with the army and para-military patrolling the whole Punjab. The army sealed off all routes of ingress and exit around the temple complex. -
Chapter Three
Operation Blue Star
3–8 June 1984 Operation Blue Star was an Indian military operation which took place 3–8 June 1984, ordered by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in order to remove Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. His armed followers from the Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar, Punjab. Bhindranwale had earlier taken residence in Harmandir Sahib and made it his headquarters in April 1980. -
Operation Blue Star
The army helicopters spotted the massive movements. General K. Sunderji sent tanks and APCs. Hundreds/thousands of Sikhs were killed at the rendezvous. The artillery and small arms firing stopped for a while, and Gurcharan Singh Tohra, former head of SGPC was sent to negotiate with Bindrawale; however, he was unsuccessful and returned with empty hands. The firing resumed again. -
Operation Blue Star
Nearly fifty thousand Sikhs gathered in the Golewal village about 25 km from Amritsar to fight the army, thirty thousand converged from the side of Batala in Gurdaspur district and about twenty thousand Sikhs gathered at Chauk Mehta, the headquarters of Damdami Taksal. Another formation of about twenty thousand were marching from the side of Harik Patan at confluence of the rivers Sutlej and Beas.
The army helicopters spotted the massive movements. General K. Sunderji sent tanks -
Operation Blue Star
In the morning, shelling started on the building inside the Harmandir Sahib complex. The 9th division launched a frontal attack on the Akal Takht, although it was unable to secure the building. -
Operation Blue Star
Due to shelling by Vijayanta tanks the Akal Takhat was destroyed. However, the primary objective of removing militants from other neighbouring structures continued for a further 24 hours. A group trying to escape from Akal Takht was mowed down by machine gun fire. -
Operation Blue Star
Army gained effective control of the Harmandir Sahib complex. -
Operation Blue Star
The Army fought about four militant Sikhs holed up in basement of a tower. A Colonel of Commandos was shot dead by an LMG burst while trying to force his way into the basement. By the afternoon of 10 June, the entire operation was completed by the army. -
Chapter One
The Hindu mob came into the house wanting Sardarji. They threw bricks at his head. I tied my scarf (dupta) around his head I pulled him inside She put her children in front of them begged and pleaded to spare Mob tricked them but talking polity. Then they hit Sardarji with a rod then his wife gotten a couple hits as well. The mob threw kerosence over the wife and husband. A person said that the women wont leave him so burn them both. -
Chapter Two
Saint Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale
Born- 12 Feb 1947
Died- 6th June 1984 (age 37) Bhindranwale was born in the village of Rode, in Moga District located in the region of Malwa (Punjab).
On 3 June 1984 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi initiated Operation Blue Star and ordered the Indian Army to raid the Golden Temple complex to remove armed militants from the complex. Bhindranwale did not survive the operation. In 1982, Bhindranwale and approximately 600 armed followers. -
Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi, the 3rd Prime Minister of India, was assassinated at 9:20 AM on 31 October 1984, at her Safdarjung Road, New Delhi residence. She was killed by two of her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star, the Indian army's June 1984 assault on the Golden Temple in Amritsar which left the temple heavily damaged.
