Political Leaders Who were Assassinated

Mahatma Gandhi-
Date of Assassination-30th Jan 1948
Assassinated by-Nathuram Godse using an Pistol
Reason-According to Nathruram Godse Mahatma Gandhi was partial and was favoring Muslims and he was one of the reason for Partition of India.
Punishment Deliver to the killers-Hanged after a court trial.

Indira Gandhi-
Date of Assassination-31 October 1984
Assassinated by-Satwant Singh and Beant Singh using a Pistol and Sten gun(Both were her body Guards) Kehar Singh Was the Conspirator.
Reason-She was targeted as she ordered for the Operation Blue Star which harmed a little bit the "Golden temple" the Most Religious place for the Sikhs.
Punishment Deliver to the killers-Beant Singh was shot down by other Bodyguards after taking them into the custody and others Satwant Singh and Kehr singh were hanged by after a court trial.

Beant Singh(Punjab CM)-
Date of Assassination-31 August 1995
Assassinated by-Balwant Singh by an Bomb which Killed around 17 People including three commandos.
Reason-At the end of 70s the Khalistani Movement gained a lot of popularity and lots of sikhs youths were supporting it and joined the armed Movement for a separate Sikh Nation,The most prominent leaders of this movement were killed in Operation Bluestar and after the assassination of Indira Gandhi a Anti-Sikh riot occurred which was another reason the Armed movement gained popularity and in this era lots of innocent Civilians were killed by Militants and lots of Khalistani supporters and Militants were killed by the security forces and the Government led by Congress in the state  was blamed for this by Most of the sikhs and as an revenge the CM of Punjab(Beant Singh) who is blamed for all this assasination was assassinated by Balwant Singh who was an Khalistani Supporter.
Punishment Deliver to the killers-The Session Court ordered for the Death penalty but Lots of Sikhs Organisations opposed the Decision and after that CM of punjab(Prakash Badal) meth the President of India(Prathiba Patil) after which Central Government stayed the execution.

Rajiv Gandhi-
Date of Assassination-21 May 1991
Assassinated by-Thenmozhi "Gayatri" Rajaratnam AKA Gayatri and Dhanu Supposed to be an LTTE Member using RDX.
Reason-When Rajiv Gandhi was the PM of India he sent Indian Defense Forces in Srilanka as the Peace keeping Force which was fighting against the Armed Rebel of Tamils it's alleged that the Forces were involved in lots of Brutality against the Tamils Civilians including rape against woman and it's supposed that Thenmozhi "Gayatri" Rajaratnam was one of them who was raped by the Peace Keeping Forces of India.(Remember there is no proof these are just allegations)However the assassination was done by LTTE as Revenge.
Punishment Deliver to the killers-The Session court Ordered for Death Penalty for all the 26 Accuses under TADA however the Supreme Court reduced it and only 4 of them were ordered for Death Penalty.

Azhikodan Raghavan-
Date of Assassination-September 23, 1972
Assassinated by-Unknown It's Alleged that the killers were hired by the ruling party.
Reason-He was an member of of CPI(M) and was a Secretary of the Kerala CPI(M) Party,His Supporters said that the Killers were from an Extremist group Who were hired by the Ruling party,however there was an Communal Violence in Thalassery during Dec 1971 in which he and his party workers played a vital role in Protecting the Muslims of that area,Also a prominent Leader of CPI(M) V.S.Achuthanandan once said that K. Karunakaran played a important role in the killing of Com. Raghavan.
Punishment Deliver to the killers-Never Delivered Killers are unknown


Datta Samant-
Date of Assassination-January 16, 1997
Assassinated by-Contract Killers Gunned down him outside his home.
Reason-He was an ex-MP of India,An Very Active union Leader who was very close to communists but was not an part of the Communists party he opposed the Congress and other Parties like Shiv Sena and BJP strongly.According to his supporters the killers were hired by someone who works in Real estate or by the Political party like BJP or Shiv Sena who were ruling at that time.See what his supporters say
Punishment Deliver to the killers-Three were arrested and one was killed by the police in a encounter.


Deendayal Upadhyaya-
Date of Assassination-February 11, 1968
Assassinated by-Unknown
Reason-He was an prominent leader of the Janasangh(Which is now BJP),Still his killing is the most Mysterious case and still it's unresolved after decades of his killing.
Punishment Deliver to the killers-Never Delivered as The case is still an Mystery


Haren Pandya-
Date of Assassination-February 11, 1968
Assassinated by-
Reason-
Punishment Deliver to the killers-

Phoolan Devi-
Date of Assassination-25 July 2001
Assassinated by-Sher Singh Rana with others
Reason-Phoolan Devi was from an lower caste Family,she was married in an early age with a man who was much older then her(the marriage was arranged by her cousin Mayadin to get rid of Phoolan),When she was an Child after her grandparents death her Uncle(Father of Mayadin) taken away the land her grandfather owned and his family was forced to live in a poor condition and from those days there was an tension between both the families after marriage in 1979 her Cousin Mayadin accused phoolan of stealing in his house and managed to get arrested phoolan by the police,and she was kept in the jail for three days where she was raped by the police after that she was totally helpless according to some People she Joined the Dacoits after this and some other say that she was Abducted by the Dacoits which was led by Babu gujjar who tried to rape her but was saved by vikram mallah(an member and 2nd in command of the team who belongs to the same caste of phoolan) and later Babu gujjar was killed by Vikran when he tried to rape her in the night.Later she killed her old Husband and married Vikran Mallah as 2nd wife.And after that some Upper caste people joined the Team but they were jealous of that some Lower caste people have the control over the team later these upper caste people managed to get some more people to join the team and later the killed the Vikram mallah and Phoolan was kidnapped by them and was locked in a room where she was raped by Lots of upper caste people Late she managed to escape from their with two Old Dacoits who were Mallahs and after that she managed to create a team of lower caste which was led by Man singh an old member of the Vikram team.
Later She was back in the village where she was raped by the upper caste people for the revenge on 14th feb 1981 where she asked to bring all the Kidnappers(Rapists) but her men failed to find all of them only two of them were identified when she failed to find all the of Rapists she ordered her people to Line-up all the upper caste in a line and shoot all of them and then 22 Thakurs were killed there and as an Revenge she was Killed later by Sher Singh Rana(Who was from upper caste)
Punishment Deliver to the killers-Not known


Pratap Singh Kairon-
Date of Assassination-February 6, 1965
Assassinated by-Sucha Singh, Baldev Singh and Nahar Singh `Fauji'
Reason-Sucha had planned the killing of Kairon in revenge, because he believed that Kairon had taken a personal interest in securing the conviction of one Ajit Singh and his father Bir Singh in a murder case.
Punishment Deliver to the killers-These 3 were Hanged and one other was Given Life Imprison


Prem Kumar Sharma-
Date of Assassination-June 1993
Assassinated by-Finding
Reason-Finding
Punishment Deliver to the killers-Unknown


Alimineti Madhava Reddy-
Date of Assassination-March 7, 2000
Assassinated by-Naxalists
Reason-He was an Cabinet ministers and was an Well Known Politician,He was killed by Naxalists 
Punishment Deliver to the killers-Unknown


Paritala Ravindra-
Date of Assassination-January 24, 2005
Assassinated by- Hanumantha Reddy, Peddi Reddy, O B Reddy, Vadde Konda, Vadde Srinivasulu, Rekamayya, Narayana Reddy and Ranga Nayukul - and the approver was Rammohan Reddy
Reason-
Punishment Deliver to the killers-3 Were brutally killed by Rivals in different places,8 were given Life imprisonment.


K. Kunhali-
Date of Assassination- 28 July 1969
Assassinated by-Political Rivals by hiring killers
Reason-He was an Communist leader and was killed by his Political Rivals.
Punishment Deliver to the killers-Unknown


Lalit Narayan Mishra-
Date of Assassination-January 3, 1975
Assassinated by-Still unknown by the Government
Reason-Still Investigation have not revealed anything,however then PM Indira Gandhi Blamed Foreign Countries for this Most Probably the CIA was Blamed by the Pm Indira Gandhi.but officialy nothing has been announced by the investigation.
Punishment Deliver to the killers-Not Delivered