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Operation Blue Star’s 37th anniversary: Security stepped up at Golden Temple
Operation Bluestar was a military action ordered by then PM Indira Gandhi to flush out Sikh militants holed up in Harmandir Sahib Complex (Golden Temple) in Amritsar. It is said that nearly 3,000 Sikhs were killed during the operation.
June 6, 2021 11:25 IST
1 / 8Activists organise a march on the 37th anniversary of Operation Blue Star in Amritsar. (PTI Photo)
2 / 8Police personnel take stock of the situation near the Golden Temple. (PTI Photo)
3 / 8Presence of activists belonging from several Sikh radical groups during the march called for deployment of around 6,000 security personnel to ensure no untoward incident took place. (PTI Photo)
4 / 8Dal Khalsa organised a 'Ghallughara Yadgaari Samagam' on the eve of the anniversary of Operation Blue Star. (Photo: Twitter/ @mssirsa)
5 / 8Sources have said that police personnel will remain deployed inside Golden Temple in plain clothes. SGPC task force will also remain active. (PTI Photo)
6 / 8A Sikh priest shows a bullet that had hit the Holy Book during the operation. (PTI Photo)
7 / 8The Holy book of the Sikhs that was damaged in the firing during Operation Blue Star in 1984. (PTI Photo)
8 / 8Dal Khalsa supporters, including women and children, took out a march calling it a ‘Genocide Remembrance Parade’, displaying photographs of damaged Akal Takht and Sikhs who died during the operation in 1984. (PTI Photo)
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