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Later the movement lasted for 19 long years till 1966. That's when the Indira Gandhi government had to relent and they divided Punjab into three parts namely, a Sikh majority state called Punjab, a Hindu majority state called Haryana, and the third part was Chandigarh - union territory and shared capital of Punjab & Haryana. The trifurcation did not really solve the problem though. In 1973 Sikhs demanded autonomy for the state of Punjab. By the 1980s, the movement became violent and the chorus for a separate nation started growing rapidly. The movement attracted a lot of supporters and Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale was the biggest one.
Bhindranwale became a dangerous cult figure since he resorted to extremism and to escape arrest he took up residence inside the Golden Temple. For two long years, the Government of India did not act. Then finally, in June 1984, Delhi intervened with operation Blue Star to flush out all terrorists from the Golden Temple. Bhindranwale along with his accomplice was neutralized and the Indian Army took control of the shrine.
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