Government should tell the truth on Operation Bluestar: Jaitley

"We are now having some of the British documents becoming public. In the next few months, more documents between the period February to June 1984 would become public on account of the expiry of the limitation of 30 years. It is about time that the government decided to tell us the truth as to what the real facts were," said the Bharatiya Janata Party leader.

He claimed instead of preventing extremist hardliners from collecting in large numbers with arms and ammunition inside the Golden Temple, the government decided to look the other way.

"It had hoped that moderate Sikh politicians would become irrelevant. It probably had planned that on the eve of the 1984 elections, a police-military confrontation with the extremists would take place and the 1984 elections would be won by the Congress on the patriotic slogan of saving Punjab and saving India from terror," he said.