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...second armed government operation at the temple since the June 1984 army assault in which hundreds of Sikhs, including the extremist leader Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, were slain. That bloody raid provoked widespread Sikh outrage and eventually led to the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by two of her Sikh bodyguards. By contrast, last week only one person was killed and two were injured. Moreover, this time many moderate Sikhs seemed to accept the well-planned raid as a necessary move to stem the increasing violence that has racked the northern Indian state of Punjab over the past...
...committee that issued the seditious call to arms. They had slipped out of the temple before the raid and escaped. Later, extremists retaliated by killing seven people in terrorist attacks. Still, the forced abandonment of the holy shrine was a humiliating defeat for the extremists. Said Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: "We will not allow the voice of fanaticism to be raised and will make every effort to stop such fanatics from disintegrating the nation." The operation marked a political victory for Gandhi, who negotiated a pact with moderate Sikhs in July 1985 and urged them to crack down on their...
...There is discontent, no doubt about it," said Swamy. He said that although Gandhi "enjoys a huge majority" of political support in parliament, he has recently lost the backing of 12 of 24 provinces in popular elections...
...opposition party is "pretty confident" it can replace Gandhi's party when parliamentary elections are held two and one-half years from...
...present Mr. Rajiv Gandhi has too much of a tilt to the Soviet Union," said Swamy, adding that he believes the greatest threat in India is from the Soviets in Afghanistan...