"You are rattled by the response Rahul Gandhi has got from the people in Bargari area which at one time used to be the Akali bastion.
"You can't wash away your sins by attacking the Congress leader on issues that go back to three decades.
"You should have come out with some fresh ammunition," Bajwa said.
Moreover, both Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh have apologised for what happened in in 1984.
The PPCC chief charged Badal with giving "tacit approval" to Operation Bluestar at a secret meeting with the then Union Home Minister P V Narsimha Rao in Delhi on March 28, 1984.
He reminded that Badal that he himself had been using the word terrorist for those who were inside the Golden Temple complex when the army undertook the operation to flush out secessionist elements.
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