List of assassinated Indian politicians
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This is an incomplete list of Important Indian politicians who were assassinated mainly for ideological or political reasons.
Name | Year | Place | Position | Party | Ostensible reason | Reference |
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | 1948 | New Delhi | Leader of the Indian Independence movement | Indian National Congress | The accumulating provocation of thirty-two years, culminating in his last pro-Muslim fast, at last goaded me to the conclusion that the existence of Gandhi should be brought to an end immediately: Nathuram Godse in court while on trial for murder. | [1] |
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | 1953 | Jammu and Kashmir | Minister of Industry and Supply | Claimed murdered by S.C. Das | [2] | |
Pratap Singh Kairon | 1965 | Rohtak | Chief Minister of Punjab | Personal enimity | [3] | |
Balwant Rai Mehta | 1965 | Kutch | Chief Minister of Gujarat | Pakistani fighter plane, which shot down Mehta's aircraft while flying through Kutch | [4] | |
Deendayal Upadhyaya | 1968 | Mughalsarai Junction, Varanasi | President of Bharatiya Jana Sangha | Bharatiya Jana Sangha | Found dead under mysterious condition. | [5] |
K. Kunhali | 1969 | Kerala | MLA | Communist Party (Marxist) | Rival party member | [6] |
Krishna Desai | 1970 | Maharashtra | MLA | Communist | Shivsena party members | [citation needed] |
Azhikodan Raghavan | 1972 | Kerala | The convener of the Left Front | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Unknown [7] | [8] |
K B Sahay | 1974 | Hazaribag-Patna Highway in Sindoor, Bihar | Chief Minister of Bihar | Indian National Congress | Factional fight inside congress party | |
Lalit Narayan Mishra | 1975 | Samastipur, Bihar | Minister of Railways | Indian National Congress | [citation needed] | |
Indira Gandhi | 1984 | New Delhi | Prime Minister of India | Sikhs in protest against Operation Bluestar in Golden Temple, Amritsar | [citation needed] | |
Lalit Maken | 1985 | New Delhi | Member of Parliament, | Harjinder Singh Jinda, Sukhdev Singh Sukha and Ranjit Singh Gill | [citation needed] | |
Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga | 1988 | Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh | MLA | Indian National Congress | Devineni Rajasekhar (Nehru) TDP Party Leader | [citation needed] |
Rajiv Gandhi | 1991 | Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu | Leader of opposition | Tamil Tigers in protest against sending Indian troops to Sri Lanka | [citation needed] | |
Nagina Rai | Bihar | Cabinet Minister | [9] | |||
Prem Kumar Sharma | 1993 | Bombay | MLA | Bharatiya Janata Party | [citation needed] | |
Beant Singh | 1995 | Chandigarh, Punjab | Chief Minister of Punjab | Indian National Congress | Suspected Khalistani separatists in a car bombing in secretariat building in Chandigarh killing 17 others including 3 Indian commandos | [citation needed] |
Alimineti Madhava Reddy | 2000 | Ghatkesar, Telangana | Panchayatiraj, former Home Minister | Telugu Desam Party | Killed By Naxals | [citation needed] |
Abdul Ghani Lone | 2001 | Jammu and Kashmir | Kashmiri separatist leader. | Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference | [citation needed] | |
Ragya Naik | Maddimadugu village, Amrabad mandal, Mahbubnagar | MLA, Devarakonda constituency | Indian national Congress | [10] | ||
Phoolan Devi | New Delhi | Member of Parliament | Samajwadi Party | [citation needed] | ||
Haren Pandya | 2003 | Ahmedabad | Home Minister Gujarat | Bharatiya Janata Party | [citation needed] | |
Krishnanand Rai | 2005 | Baswania, Uttar Pradesh | MLA | Bharatiya Janata Party | Mukhtar Ansari alonwith eight other people are accused of killing Krishnanand Rai along with eight other peoples. | [11] |
Paritala Ravindra | Ananthapur, Andhra Pradesh | MLA | Telugu Desam Party | Killed in faction by his Rival Maddelacheruvu Suri | [citation needed] | |
Pramod Mahajan | 2006 | Mumbai | former Cabinet Minister | Bharatiya Janata Party | Pravin Mahajan (Brother) killed Pramod Mahajan for personal reasons [12] | [citation needed] |
Madan Tamang | 2010 | Darjeeling, West Bengal | President, Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League | Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League | [citation needed] | |
T. P. Chandrasekharan | 2012 | Kerala | Revolutionary Marxist | Revolutionary Marxist Party | [citation needed] | |
Vidya Charan Shukla | 2013 | Sukma, Chhattisgarh | Minister of External Affairs | Indian National Congress | Communist Insurgents waging war against the Indian Republic | [citation needed] |
Nand Kumar Patel | Sukma, Chhattisgarh | Home Minister | ||||
Mahendra Karma | Sukma, Chhattisgarh | Leader of the Opposition | ||||
Dilip Sarkar | 2013 | West Bengal | Ex-MLA | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Shot dead at Kulpi in the Asansol subdivision by Trinamool Congress. | [13] |
Govind Pansare | 2015 | Maharashtra | Politician | Communist Party of India | Pansare used to run an organisation which encouraged inter-caste marriages. He had opposed the Putrakameshti yajna, a Hindu ritual that supposed results in a male child. He had protested toll taxes. He had also criticised the glorification of Nathuram Godse, the man who killed Gandhi. |
References[]
- ^ Why I Killed Gandhiji? Godses final address.
- ^ Das, S.C (2000), The Biography of Bharat Kesri Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee with Modern Implications, Abhinav Publications, ISBN 9788170173878
- ^ Why Partap Singh Kairon, man behind Punjab's industrial and agricultural growth, was killed?
- ^ When a Gujarat chief minister was shot dead by Pakistani fighter pilot
- ^ Who Killed Deendayal Upadhyaya? It's a 50-year old question.
- ^ Gopalan kills Kunhali; 50 years later with revelation Aryadan Muhammad
- ^ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/politics/220218/azhikodan-murder-still-remains-a-conundrum.html
- ^ "Azhikodan murder still remains a conundrum". Deccan Chronicle. 2018-02-22. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
- ^ "It all started with the murder of Late Mr. Nagina Rai, former MP of Gopalganj in 1991." http://zeenews.india.com/BiharElection2010/story.aspx?aid=662790 http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110607/jsp/bihar/story_14079722.jsp
- ^ "Tribal legislator shot dead by naxalites". 29 December 2001. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- ^ Krishnanand Rai massacre: 500 bullets, 8 murders and 70 witnesses, yet all acquitted, who murdered?
- ^ https://in.rediff.com/news/2006/may/03mahajan1.htm
- ^ Staff Reporter (2013-06-09). "Former CPI(M) MLA shot dead in West Bengal". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
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