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4 days ago · The first round of the elections took place on May 20, but the following day in Tamil Nadu, in a small town just south of Madras (now Chennai), Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in a suicide bomb attack. A woman apparently of Sri Lankan Tamil origin and bearing a concealed plastic bomb destroyed herself and more than a dozen others crowded around ...
4 days ago · For example: His role in the assassination of John Saunders was aimed at striking a blow against oppressive British officials. Bhagat Singh’s Justification of Revolutionary Violence: Bhagat Singh argued that violence was justified when used to destroy oppressive systems rather than to harm individuals. Approaches Towards Political Activism ...
1 day ago · Killing Ghazi Baba. Raman writes that his connections from his previous stint helped him take down Nadeem. In 2002, Raman, then the BSF’s Inspector General (Personnel) in Delhi, was contacted by an informer who emphasised he must return for an “important mission”, telling him: “ Ghazi Baba shehar mein hai (Ghazi Baba is in town ...
3 days ago · VP Singh contested the new elections but his party was relegated to the opposition chiefly due to the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi (May 1991) during the election campaign, and he later retired from active politics.
3 days ago · The death was announced to the Indian parliament in words similar to Nehru's own at the time of Gandhi's assassination: "The light is out." [ 258 ] [ 259 ] India's future prime minister and then a Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh Atal Bihari Vajpayee famously delivered Nehru an acclaimed eulogy. [ 260 ]
5 days ago · Fernandes was also a patron of the Fund Raising Committee backed by the LTTE, with an objective to help the 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. [105] The Sri Lankan government stated that, "the LTTE's biggest supporter in India is Defence Minister George Fernandes."
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3 days ago · This section will be updated with the PIB Summaries of the Press Releases in the Press Information Bureau of India (PIB) website to help with preparation for the UPSC Exam.
