Indira Gandhi has lost power. After successfully ruling the government of this metropolitan country, her and her political party has just been ousted by the opposing Akali party. Tension and anxiety wash over the Indian people as the new government sets in; hostility in some, who favored the Indira Gandhi rule yet the results are in, the ballot, is cast. Can the Akali party fulfill their promises? Did the people of India vote the "right" party in?

It was a close vote, a near miss result. Here's where Sanjay Singh and Zail Singh (former president), step in. Sanjay, being the son of Indira Gandhi and a loyal follower of her political moves, is distraught over his mother's loss of power and Zail Singh wants his position back. As these two powerful men come together in their grief, a plan is made to decrease the popularity of the Akalis and promote Indira G

General Jagjit Singh Aurora said that as many as 80 shells could have been fired into the shrine. He had examined the shrine before it was repaired. There was hardly one pillar standing of the Takht. The gold dome had been damaged. The defenders must have feared the building coming down on them. Even though the Takht had been severely damaged there was still strong resistance. The army feared that the Sant had escaped. Brar said only one tank fired machine gun but damage depicts a different scenario. Other officers told Satish Jacob as many as 6 tanks were used. Along with this battle, another regiment was taking care of Longowal and his men. as the army was told by the government to prevent fighting between the two groups. Bhan singh, S.G.P.C. secretary, described it as people drinking the sweat to ridden their thirst. There was no electricity or water for more than thirty hours in that room. At one in the morning, the army broke into the Teja Singh Samundri hall. The army says, the men surrendered as opposed to the secretary who says they fought but were forced to give in. The Akali's were kept in office while the rest left, as they were leaving, they were hit by grenades. 70 dead bodies were found in the compound of women and children from the hall that were either shot by the army or the extremists. During the operation, the library which had the copies of the Granths, hand written by the Gurus, had caught on fire. It happened when a brigadier and his men were eating puris when a sniper fired, when they fired back the sniper was running in front of the library and it caught fire in the process.

After all the army's alternative ideas were tried in vain, the army decided to attack heavy launch on Takht. Commandos ran down the clock tower on to the pavement but were shot down by Sikhs with light machine guns on the steps. As there was firing coming from the Temple, permission was requested to attack on the temple but denied. Some commandos made it to the Takht but it was heavily fortified. All the buildings around the shrines had been fortified. The courtyard in front of the Takht had become a killing ground. The defences of the Takht were too strong. The army was in fear of a massacre and so had to order the tanks in. Before the tanks went in, they tried to send an armored personal carrier into the Takht but it was destroyed by the Chinese made rocket propelled grenade launchers which the army did not expect the extremists to have. The tanks had search lights but they were ordered to be turned off once the army realized that the extremists possessed grenade launchers. The tanks fired on the Takht.

In order to celebrate his release, he wandered around the capital, Delhi, with his followers, showing off illegal arms. Again, there was no action taken against him. Bhindranwale hated to even roll up the beard or the dyeing of the beard. So, he met Zail Singh at the memorial of Santokh Singh, a Bhindranwale man, he said," In a village anyone who has his face blackened and sandals hung around his neck and is made to sit backwards on a donkey is being punished because he has molested someone's sister or someone's mother. I am surprised to see here that people have blackened their own faces. I do not know whose sisters they have molested."

The White Paper on the Punjab Agitation said that 41 light machine guns, 57 sten guns, 377 rifles, 83 7.62mm self loading rifles, 88 12 bore guns, 52 7.61 mm chinese rifles, 71 assorted rifles, 61 12 bore and 2 anti tank weapons, 128 2 inch mines and large quantities of ammunition and explosives were found at the Takht. Some officials included Kirpans to the weaponry found but they were excluded after Zail Singh said that it was not illegal to carry Kirpans. A terrorist took a shot at Zail Singh, fortunately missing him and hitting a colonel, but it does signify the extremist's anger against him. Zail Singh was harsh to the Governor Pandey, he was shocked at the amount of weapons found at

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