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 |
|---|
| Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
1948 |
New Delhi |
Leader of the Indian freedom movement |
Indian National Congress |
Held Gandhi responsible for the partition of India |
| Pratap Singh Kairon |
1965 |
Rohtak |
Chief Minister of Punjab |
Personal Enmity |
| K. Kunhali |
1969 |
Kerala |
MLA |
Communist Party (Marxist) |
rival party member |
| Krishna Desai |
1970 |
Maharashtra |
MLA |
Communist |
|
| Lalit Narayan Mishra |
1975 |
Samastipur, Bihar |
Minister of Railways |
Indian National Congress |
| Indira Gandhi |
1984 |
New Delhi |
Prime Minister of India |
Sikhs in protest against Operation Bluestar in Golden Temple, Amritsar |
| Lalit Maken |
1985 |
New Delhi |
Member of Parliament, |
Harjinder Singh Jinda, Sukhdev Singh Sukha and Ranjit Singh Gill |
| Rajiv Gandhi |
1991 |
Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu |
Prime Minister of India |
Tamil Tigers in protest against sending Indian troops to Sri Lanka |
| Nagina Rai |
Bihar[1] |
Cabinet Minister |
|
| Prem Kumar Sharma |
1993 |
Bombay |
MLA |
Bharatiya Janata Party |
|
| 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. |
| Alimineti Madhava Reddy |
2000 |
Ghatkesar, Telangana |
Panchayatiraj, former Home Minister |
Telugu Desam Party |
|
| Abdul Ghani Lone |
2001 |
Jammu and Kashmir |
Kashmiri separatist leader. |
Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference |
|
| Phoolan Devi |
New Delhi |
Member of Parliament |
Samajwadi Party |
|
| Krishnanand Rai |
2005 |
Baswania, Uttar Pradesh |
MLA |
Bharatiya Janata Party |
|
| Paritala Ravindra |
Ananthapur, Andhra Pradesh |
MLA |
Telugu Desam Party |
|
| Pramod Mahajan |
2006 |
Mumbai |
former Cabinet Minister |
Bharatiya Janata Party |
|
| Madan Tamang |
2010 |
Darjeeling, West Bengal |
President, Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League |
Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League |
|
| T. P. Chandrasekharan |
2012 |
Kerala |
Revolutionary Marxist |
Revolutionary Marxist Party |
|
| Vidya Charan Shukla |
2013 |
Sukma, Chhattisgarh |
Minister of External Affairs |
Indian National Congress |
Communist Insurgents waging war against the Indian Republic |
| Nand Kumar Patel |
Sukma, Chhattisgarh |
Home Minister |
| Mahendra Karma |
Sukma, Chhattisgarh |
Leader of the Opposition |
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