Many Sikh organisations have deliberate programmes to have fun 37th anniversary of Operation Bluestar on Sunday. the navy operation was carried out by the military in 1984 to flush out militants hiding within the Golden Temple advanced, on June 6.
The Punjab authorities has tightened the safety throughout the state, particularly Amritsar, the place Golden Temple is located. The Amritsar commissionerate police have stated they’ll deploy greater than 6,000 cops to maintain a vigil throughout town.
A flag march was carried out by the police from Corridor Gate to Heritage Avenue that results in the Golden Temple on Thursday.
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), the apex Sikh non secular physique, stated final week that it’s going to show the bullet-ridden holy saroop of the Guru Granth sahib on Operation Bluestar’s anniversary this 12 months.
The saroop, which was put in within the sanctum sanctorum at the moment, was hit by a bullet in the course of the military motion in 1984.
The choice was taken following a particular assembly of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) government committee.
Addressing a press convention, SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur stated the Sikh neighborhood can always remember the occasions of 1984.
Operation Bluestar was a navy motion ordered by then PM Indira Gandhi to flush out Sikh militants holed up in Harmandir Sahib Advanced (Golden Temple) in Amritsar. The operation that was carried out between June 1 and June 8, 1984 claimed a number of lives and left the shrine broken.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards after Operation Bluestar, triggering an extra wave of retaliation during which almost 3,000 Sikhs have been killed.