“Since Bhindranwale at that time was only 35, his style of preaching was a bit aggressive."
Hitting out at Operation Bluestar, BJP leader and newly nominated RS member Subramanian Swamy demanded the declassification of the files to bring out the truth behind allowing the army into the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
Speaking at the Lovely Professional University, Swamy said Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale was a preacher who promoted Sikhism and asked youngsters to say away from drugs.
He was quoted as saying by Hindustan Times: “Since Bhindranwale at that time was only 35, his style of preaching was a bit aggressive, and that’s what prompted many to think that he was a hardliner, even a terrorist. I met him many times before this operation. He would call media to the Akal Takht in routine. Why would any terrorist hold press conferences?”
He also said that communist leader Harikishan Singh Surjeet had conveyed to the erstwhile USSR that if Sikhism returned to Punjab, it would wipe out communism from the state. He added: “Once a Soviet ambassador to India also accepted that because of pressure from Surjeet, USSR had asked prime minister Indira for the operation. Then president Giani Zail Singh had asked me to advise Indira not to take this step under the Soviet pressure. I talked to her but she was so obsessed with the USSR that she could not say no.”
He went to add that he had raised several questions against those calling Bhindrawale a terrorist, and many political parties had opposed him. He also attributed his election loss to this stand. "Only the declassification of files and few sentences in the post-Bluestar carnage against Sikhs in Delhi would provide relief to the community and bury the issue forever,” Swamy reportedly said.
He also added that India would defend Pakistan if it didn’t mend its ways. He added: “Tomorrow, my party may call it my personal opinion but we all working on it.” He also accused Muslims of hindering the Union Civil Code, opining that the Hindu majority was soft as those abroad.
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