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 For embracing secularism and not declaring India as a Hindu Country
Pratap Singh Kairon 1965 Rohtak Chief Minister of Punjab Personal enimity
Balwant Rai Mehta 1965 Kutch Chief Minister of Gujarat Pakistani fighter plane, which shot down Mehta's aircraft while flying through Kutch
K. Kunhali 1969 Kerala MLA Communist Party (Marxist) Rival party member
Krishna Desai 1970 Maharashtra MLA Communist
Azhikodan Raghavan 1972 Kerala The convener of the Left Front Communist Party of India (Marxist) Killed by Congress Party [1]
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
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
Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga 1988 Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh MLA Indian National Congress
Rajiv Gandhi 1991 Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu Leader of opposition Tamil Tigers in protest against sending Indian troops to Sri Lanka
Nagina Rai Bihar Cabinet Minister [2]
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
Ragya NaikMaddimadugu village, Amrabad mandal, MahbubnagarMLA, Devarakonda constituencyIndian national Congress[3]
Phoolan Devi New Delhi Member of Parliament Samajwadi Party
Haren Pandya 2003 Ahmedabad Home Minister Gujarat Bharatiya Janata 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
Dilip Sarkar 2013 West Bengal Ex-MLA Communist Party of India (Marxist) Shot dead at Kulpi in the Asansol subdivision by Trinamool Congress. [4]

References
  1. "Azhikodan murder still remains a conundrum". Deccan Chronicle. 2018-02-22. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  2. "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
  3. "Tribal legislator shot dead by naxalites". 29 December 2001. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  4. 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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