List of assassinated Indian politicians

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
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]
K. Kunhali	1969	Kerala	MLA	Communist Party (Marxist)	Rival party member, Congress	^[5]
Krishna Desai	1970	Maharashtra	MLA	Communist Party of India	Shivsena party members	^{[citation needed]}
Azhikodan Raghavan	1972	Kerala	The convener of the Left Front	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Unknown ^[6]	^[7]
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	1991	Bihar	Cabinet Minister			^[8]
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		^[9]
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.	^[10]
Paritala Ravindra	2005	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 ^[11]	^{[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.	^[12]
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[edit]

↑ 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
↑ Gopalan kills Kunhali; 50 years later with revelation Aryadan Muhammad‌
↑ "Azhikodan murder still remains a conundrum". 22 February 2018.
↑ "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?
↑ "Pramod Mahajan passes away".
↑ 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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[1] Why I Killed Gandhiji? Godses final address.

[2] Das, S.C (2000), The Biography of Bharat Kesri Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee with Modern Implications, Abhinav Publications, ISBN 9788170173878

[3] Why Partap Singh Kairon, man behind Punjab's industrial and agricultural growth, was killed?

[4] When a Gujarat chief minister was shot dead by Pakistani fighter pilot

[5] Gopalan kills Kunhali; 50 years later with revelation Aryadan Muhammad‌

[6] "Azhikodan murder still remains a conundrum". 22 February 2018.

[7] "Azhikodan murder still remains a conundrum". Deccan Chronicle. 2018-02-22. Retrieved 2020-09-09.

[8] "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

[9] "Tribal legislator shot dead by naxalites". 29 December 2001. Retrieved 28 April 2020.

[10] Krishnanand Rai massacre: 500 bullets, 8 murders and 70 witnesses, yet all acquitted, who murdered?

[11] "Pramod Mahajan passes away".

[12] 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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