Operation Lal Dora 2013
cuurrent affairs 2013
Operation Lal Dora 2013 The Top Secret ‘Operation Lal Dora’
President Pranab Mukherjee will be buttress a relationship
with an Indian Ocean nation that is so central to India’s security interests that it went to the extent of
planning military intervention to ensure an Indian-origin
Prime Minister remained in power there. The Top Secret
‘Operation Lal Dora’ which was conceived in 1983 with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s approval and called for
the amphibious landing of troops from the 54th Division to help the Mauritian Prime Minister Anerood
Jugnauth fight off a challenge from his radical rival Paul Berenger which New Delhi feared might take the form of
an attempted coup. India’s military plans alsoincluded the deployment of major naval assets including as
many as six destroyers with Alouette helicoptersand MK 42C Sea Kings for slithering operations. A measure of
this ‘huge success’ was Mr. Jugnauth’s subsequent decision to request India Gandhi for an Indian as
his national security adviser. General J.N. Tamini, who remained there for many years. India’s first
military intervention in the Indian Ocean came four years later, first with INS Vindhyagiri helping to abort a
coup in the Seychelles in 1986 (‘Operation Flowers are Blooming’) and then ‘Operation Cactus’ in 1988 when
commandos and naval ships were rushed to the Maldives after Sri Lankan Tamil militants sought to unseat
the then President, Abdul Gayoom.
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