Jarnail Singh Bhindanwal: Lt Gen (retd) Kuldeep Singh Brar has levelled some maligning accusations against former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, saying the then-political leadership had allowed the Bhindranwale cult to flourish. He said the Late Prime Minister had allowed militant leader Jarnail Singh Bhindanwale to grow into a Frankenstein monster and finished him off when he reached the pinnacle.
‘Indira Gandhi allowed Jarnail Singh Bhindanwale to flourish’
“No one wants an operation, but what do you do? Indira Gandhi allowed him to become Frankenstein. You could see every year what was happening. But when he reached the pinnacle, now finish him off, now destroy him. It’s too late,” he said in a podcast. “They had their own little problem support between Akali and Congress. They allowed this cult of Bhindranwale to continue,” the retired army officer said.
‘The feeling was very strong that they are going to declare Khalistan’
Lt Gen Kuldip Singh was speaking at Smita Prakash’s podcast titled ‘Never heard before stories from the man who led Operation Blue Star”. Recalling the situation of Punjab in the 1980s, he said that the state was under Bhindanwale’s control.
“In the 1980s, let’s say 1982, 83, 84, things were very bad over there. There was no law and order at all. Lot of police were afraid of taking action against anyone because Bhindranwale had become so powerful. He had become like a Frankenstein. His orders were the last orders,” he said.
“In the beginning of 1984, the feeling was very strong that they are going to declare Khalistan. The youth were without jobs. They had motorcycles and scooters and they roamed around with little pistols and revolvers. There were many gangsters. Law and order had totally broken down. The feeling of Khalistan was slowly building up. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale was in full control of the state,” he said.
For the unversed, Gen Singh headed the Operation Blue Star in 1984 between June 1 and June 8. It was then when Indira Gandhi directed the military to operation to flush out Sikh terrorists including Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale,
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