Economic Times: New Delhi: Wednesday, June 07, 2017.
No records
Despite
routine demand over the years to make documents related to Operation Bluestar
public, the Union cabinet secretariat, home ministry and defence ministry
maintained they had no record on whether the military action was decided orally
or by a written word.
Such a
mystery
Moreover,
they had no record to show who gave the orders - then Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi, the Union cabinet, Amritsar deputy commissioner or the President.
In response
to an application filed under the RTI Act with the Prime Minister's Office
(PMO) by a Kapurthala resident and former bank officer-turned-author Baldev
Singh, the cabinet secretariat, MHA and MoD in November 2013, said they had no
record on this.
PMO
transferred application
Baldev had
sent an application under RTI Act to PMO on October 17, 2013, asking whether
the decision to order Operation Bluestar in June 1984 was oral or written; was
it a decision made by the Union cabinet, PM Indira Gandhi, or President Giani
Zail Singh. He also sought a copy of any such written order.
The PMO
transferred the application to MoD, cabinet secretariat and MHA to which all
three replied in November 2013. In their responses, the central public
information officers (CPIOs) said the application was transferred to them by
the PMO.
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