The Dharam Yudh Morcha ("righteous campaign") was a political movement launched in 1982 by the Sikh political party Akali Dal in partnership with Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, with its stated aim being the fulfillment of a set of devolutionary objectives based on the Anandpur Sahib Resolution. As the protest movement gained momentum, the government began to run out of room in jails for the over 25,000 peaceful volunteer protestors. Over 150,000 protestors would be arrested over the course of the "morcha". The central government, instead of preempting the agitation regarding Punjab state by constitutionally referring all the legal issues to the nation's Supreme Court as demanded, played up the threat to law and order, and was ineffective in resolving the issues politically. Extrajudicial killings by police forces of orthodox Sikh youth in rural areas during the summer and winter of 1982 and early 1983 resulted in retaliatory violence. Progressively, actions by Sikh militants to achieve their demands also took place. In June 1984, the movement reached its zenith during Operation Blue Star, when Indian security forces stormed the holiest Sikh site, the Golden Temple in Amritsar, where militants had set up their headquarters. In retaliation, the two Sikh bodyguards of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assassinated her in October 1984. The killing was followed by many anti-Sikh riots as well as more Sikh militant attacks which cost dozens of lives. In the end, Sikh militancy did not bring about a separate state, and the Indian Government achieved victory in 1995.