Reacting over the whole controversy, Arun Jaitley on Tuesday has demanded an explanation from the government over the whole controversy. Even the British prime minister David Cameron recently has ordered his cabinet secretary to establish the facts.
Jaitley said through a social networking site, ‘If the British government was being consulted in February 1984, it only lends credence to the fact that government of India neither believed in nipping the problem at the initial stage nor in exploring alternative methods of evacuating the extremists from the Golden Temple. It wanted to invade the sacred precincts of the Golden Temple, even if it meant hurting national interests and, certainly, the interests of the Sikhs.’
In one of the letter issued from 10 Downing Street from the principal private secretary’s office on 6 February, 1984 it was mentioned that, ‘Thank you for your letter of 3 February about the Indian request for advice on plans for the removal of dissidents Sinkhs from the Golden Temple.’
The bizarre revelation suggested that Thatcher reportedly has made a secrete decision of helping India without telling the British parliament to provide military planning support to the Indian government by sending a Special Air Service Officer (SAS) to chalk out strategy to conduct raid on the Golden Temple.
Then more than 1,000 people were killed after troops entered Sikhism’s holiest shrine in Amritsar, Punjab, to flush out militants holed up there. Five months later, in retaliation, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards.
Jaitley said through a social networking site, ‘If the British government was being consulted in February 1984, it only lends credence to the fact that government of India neither believed in nipping the problem at the initial stage nor in exploring alternative methods of evacuating the extremists from the Golden Temple. It wanted to invade the sacred precincts of the Golden Temple, even if it meant hurting national interests and, certainly, the interests of the Sikhs.’
In one of the letter issued from 10 Downing Street from the principal private secretary’s office on 6 February, 1984 it was mentioned that, ‘Thank you for your letter of 3 February about the Indian request for advice on plans for the removal of dissidents Sinkhs from the Golden Temple.’
The bizarre revelation suggested that Thatcher reportedly has made a secrete decision of helping India without telling the British parliament to provide military planning support to the Indian government by sending a Special Air Service Officer (SAS) to chalk out strategy to conduct raid on the Golden Temple.
Then more than 1,000 people were killed after troops entered Sikhism’s holiest shrine in Amritsar, Punjab, to flush out militants holed up there. Five months later, in retaliation, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards.