
His horse riding and love of animals was a. In 2013, targetted by Left Wing Extremist organisation in Chhattisgarh, Congress leaders Vidya Charan Shukla and Mahendra Karma along with others lost their lives in the deadly attack.įormer Chief Minister of Punjab Partap Singh Kairon was killed after he stepped down from the chair and while travelling on GT Road on Februin Sonepat when he was on way from Delhi to Chandigarh. Satguru Hari Singh Ji once had said, Partap Singh does not require any teaching, He is born with all the knowledge.

The blast claimed the lives of 17 others, including Beant Singh who was accompanied by his close friend Ranjodh Singh Mann on the day of assassination. He was killed at the secretariat complex in Chandigarh. Even in those days of Nehru and his favourite CM Partap Singh Kairon, the matter went upto. Not just this, but Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh was also gunned down by the Sikh terrorists in 1995. son of the chief minister, was taken into custody and beaten up. The village is home to a majority of Dhillon Jats who take up the name of the village as their last name. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Dhanu operative of the organisation approached him and bent down to touch his feet, leading to an explosion in an RDX-laden belt.īesides Rajiv Gandhi, 14 others were also killed in the blast. Imagine the anger of Honorable Chief Minister Pratap Singh Kairon, who on the next day, had to go personally to rescue his son. Kairon, is a small Indian village in the district of Amritsar, located in the northwest of Punjab. The attack on Gandhi was made by Thenmozhi Rajaratnam, also known as Dhanu. He was killed by suicide bombers on May 21. Similarly, her son and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by the LTTE terrorist in 1991 during the poll campaign in Sri Perumbudur in Tamil Nadu. The guards were upset after the Army carried out the operation. Indira Gandhi, who was the Prime Minister in 1984, was shot by her bodyguards Beant Singh Satwant Singh and others on October 31 at her residence following Operation Blue Star at Golden Temple in Amritsar by removing Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his armed supporters from the premises which is a sacred site of the Sikh religion. Godse, who held Gandhi responsible for the partition, was later tried in the court and hanged.

Known as "Father of the Nation' Mahatma Gandhi who played a significant role in the country's freedom movement fell to the bullets of Nathuram Godse on January 30, 1948.

New Delhi, Jul 8 (IANS): As the world mourns the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, for many in India it brought back memories of leaders who suffered a similar fate like Mahatma Gandhi who was assassinated in 1948, Indira Gandhi in 1984, and Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.
