British Sikh MPs Call for Probe into UK Role in Operation Bluestar

British Sikh members of parliament Warinder Juss and Jas Athwal on Thursday reiterated their demand in the UK Parliament for an independent investigation into the involvement of the then Margaret Thatcher-led Conservative government in India's Operation Bluestar in June 1984.

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LONDON:

Juss, who represents the governing Labour Party in Wolverhampton West in northern England, and Athwal, who is the Labour MP for Ilford South in the east of the country, raised the matter during the "Business of the House" session with the Leader of the House of Commons, Lucy Powell.

They highlighted the 41st anniversary of the operation at Golden Temple and pointed to Powell's assurance to their fellow Sikh Labour MP, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, earlier this year of the "need to get to the bottom of what happened".