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| 'Indira Gandhi regretted Operation |
| 'Indira Gandhi regretted Operation Blue Star, Emergency'
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| INDIA
, 30-October-2009
2:22:17 AM |
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She had given the nod for Operation Blue Star but late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi later regretted the decision which eventually led to her assassination 25 years ago.
The country's only woman prime minister, who died on October 31, 1984, equally regretted her another controversial decision -- imposition of Emergency -- that had shaken the country, say her close aides.
"Gandhi regretted both the decisions on Operation Blue Star and Emergency. The shape that the two incidents took later was not exactly the same for what Gandhi had taken these decisions," said R K Dhawan, her personal secretary and close aide.
Dhawan said that the first six months of Emergency went "very good" but after then things went out of control and then she "off course regretted" the step.
"In 1973-74, the Opposition parties had created so much of ruckus...they had created all sorts of problems for Gandhi. Then it was thought of that some corrective measure had to be taken," he said
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