Notice to Prakash Singh Badal over Operation Blue Star memorial

CHANDIGARH: A rights organization, planning to file a PIL against building a “martyrs memorial for Operation Blue Star victims” in Amritsar, has sent legal notices to Punjab CM Prakash Singh Badal, his son and deputy, Sukhbir Badal, and the state chief secretary over the issue. The legal notice questions whether the government is trying to justify “the stand of aggressors who launched war against the country’’. “Is the Punjab government saying that what the militants did inside the Golden Temple was a heroic act. Then why the title of martyrs? Is the government so plush in money that it is helping in funding of the memorial? Shouldn’t there be cases against the chief minister for encouraging the making of the memorial which will hurt the country’s sovereignty?”