Party paying price for failing to defend itself: politics on insurgency

Those who were either born much later and have no inclination to have research of their own or those who perhaps had no access to news those days show blatant ignorance of facts about what was happening to Punjab and India during years starting from Janta Govt of 1979 ( period when first non-congress Govt took root and we were first time coming to terms with local insurgency, police rebellion and several new means of protest) and all  to almost 1995( when sikh insurgency was effectively contained) , peaking with Indira's death in between.

Punjab was once almost lost.

Several times more innocent people than what Delhi witnessed aftermath of Indira's assassination, were killed in cold blood , driven out of buses , cars and homes during that period. For 15 years there were no night bus service in whole of North india for fear of militant attacks. Most of the towns and villages in punjab, Haryana, Himachal used to be under formal or informal curfew every night and it went on for many years. What happened in Delhi and all over India after Indira's death were riots initiated by political master of all colors, not just Congress. The actors on ground as always, were same which we see even today leading the riots, they don't change.

Innocent Sikhs had to pay the price. And Congress is paying price for not defending itself. That's shameful of its present leadership. Indira had been finest of our Prime ministers who led country through most tumultuous period yet crafted a winner nation proud of its achievements. Turned India to definite nuclear power when the whole world was divided into warring geo-political factions, won most decisive and quickest wars for the country and broke enemy's back .

The period of sikh insurgency led by Bhindrawale was leading India to yet another partition and someone had to bite the bullet. She did that. Her decision may not be liked by all or might have been wrong but that question was not raised by staunchest of her political opponents that time because they too were with her on that. In fact there were all round jubilations on hearing Bhindrawale's death.