New Delhi, May 18 -- BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Monday criticised the former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi-led Congress government for orchestrating the Operation Blue Star in Amritsar in 1984, with the support of the British Army, slamming the party for committing atrocities on Sikhs.

Operation Blue Star was a 10-day military operation spanning from June 1 to June 10, 1984.

In his online series, "Dark Chapter of Congress," Dubey recalled that on this day in 1984, the then-PM Indira Gandhi planned out Operation Blue Star to send the army into Amritsar's Golden Temple. He said that the former PM amended the National Security Act, only for Punjab, in order to conduct the operation.

Remembering the innocent lives claimed in the operation, i...