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3 days ago · On 31 October 1984, the prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi's mother, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards, which led to violent riots against Sikhs. [ 30 ] Sources estimate the number of Sikh deaths to be between 8,000 and 17,000. [ 31 ]
Sep 19, 2024 · Rajiv Gandhi was the prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989, after his mother Indira Gandhi was assassinated. He was killed by a bomb in 1991 while campaigning for elections in Tamil Nadu state.
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Sep 11, 2024 · Now, find case records of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination on Delhi HC’s new eMuseum portal. This is part of three new e-services launched at the HC. One of them, Humour in Court, will feature humorous anecdotes from courtrooms.
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2 days ago · However, an interim report on Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination released in November stated that the Dravidian Progressive Federation (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam; DMK) party, a member of the UF, shared responsibility in Gandhi’s death. The Congress Party removed its support, and, after the collapse of the UF, new elections were slated for March 1998.
2 days ago · In 1988, the decision by then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi (1984–89) to confer the award posthumously on former chief minister of Tamil Nadu, M. G. Ramachandran was criticized to have been aimed to influence voters prior to the Tamil Nadu assembly elections in 1989.
Sep 15, 2024 · Five months later Gandhi was killed in her garden in New Delhi in a fusillade of bullets fired by two of her own Sikh bodyguards in revenge for the attack in Amritsar. She was succeeded as prime minister by her son Rajiv Gandhi, who served until 1989.
Stating that Rajiv Gandhi, too, had been assassinated for the sake of country, Revanth said after the death of Rajiv Gandhi, either Sonia Gandhi or her son Rahul Gandhi never aspired...
