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Beant Singh (6 January 1959 – 31 October 1984) was one of the two bodyguards who assassinated the Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, at her New Delhi residence on 31 October 1984. Early life and family. Photograph of Beant Singh in ceremonial garb. Beant Singh was born in a Ramdasia Sikh to Baba Sucha Singh and Kartar Kaur.
Beant Singh (19 February 1922 – 31 August 1995) was an Indian politician and the 12th Chief Minister of Punjab from 1992 to 1995. He was a member of Indian National Congress. He was assassinated in a suicide bombing. Early life. Beant was born in Jhajj Jat Sikh Family from Bilaspur village near Doraha in Ludhiana District. The family migrated to Canal colonies of the West Punjab but shifted to village Kotli (Kotla Afghana) near Payal in the Ludhiana district after partition.
Beant Singh was killed in an assassination plan executed by the separatist group Babbar Khalsa International. (HT File Photo) On August 31, 1995, the day he was killed, Singh was heading out to ...
Beant Singh may refer to: Beant Singh (politician) (1922–1995), former Chief Minister of Punjab; Beant Singh (assassin) (1959–1984), who assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi This page was last edited on 15 November 2023, at 07:51 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the ...
Beant Singh was killed in an explosion outside the civil secretariat in Chandigarh on August 31, 1995. A Punjab police employee Dilawar Singh had acted as a human bomb in the incident.
Beant Singh’s officer on special duty, former bureaucrat Devinder Singh Saroya, who was among the first to reach the spot, says several bodies were strewn around (17 others had died in the blast).
Beant Singh with his wife, Jaswant Kaur, mother, Sahib Kaur, and five children. Beant Singh’s son Tej Parkash Singh is a politician who represented the Payal Assembly constituency from 2002 to 2012. His son Swaranjit Singh, who was groomed to be a politician since his childhood, died in a car accident in 1985.
Nov 12, 2019 · Beant Singh and 16 others were killed in an explosion outside the Civil Secretariat in Chandigarh on August 31, 1995. Dilawar Singh, a Punjab Police officer, had acted as a suicide bomber to assassinate Beant Singh. Rajoana was the second bomber in case Dilawar Singh would have failed to kill the Congress leader. Rajoana had cited the 1984 anti-Sikh riots as the reason behind the killing of Beant Singh.
Mar 16, 2018 · Beant Singh was killed in a bomb blast outside Punjab and Haryana secretariat on August 31, 1995. The blast had killed 17 others, including Punjab Police constable Dilawar Singh, who acted as a human bomb. Earlier, in January, Tara had submitted a letter of confession to the court, stating “I have no regret for the killing of Beant Singh”.
May 3, 2023 · Beant Singh was killed on August 31, 1995, along with 12 others in a suicide attack in Chandigarh. Rajoana was sentenced to death in 2007 by a special CBI court. The SGPC filed a mercy petition on his behalf by in March 2012. In September 2019, the MHA wrote to Punjab, proposing commutation of his death sentence into life imprisonment to commemorate the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, but the proposal was never implemented.
