List of assassinated Indian politicians

This is an incomplete list of Indian politicians who were assassinated.

Name	Year	Place	Position	Party	Assassin(s)	Reference
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	1948	New Delhi	Leader of the Indian Independence movement	Indian National Congress	Main article: Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi Nathuram Godse, who blamed Gandhi for the partition of India.	^[1]
Pratap Singh Kairon	1965	Rohtak, East Punjab	Chief Minister of Punjab		Personal enmity	^[2]
Balwant Rai Mehta	1965	Kutch, Gujarat	Chief Minister of Gujarat		Main article: Gujarat Beechcraft incident A Pakistan Air Force fighter jet piloted by Qais Hussain, shot down Mehta's aircraft in Kutch during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.	^[3]
K. Kunhali	1969	Kerala	MLA		Rival party member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).	^[4]
Krishna Desai	1970	Maharashtra	MLA	Communist Party of India	Shiv Sena party members	^[5]
Azhikodan Raghavan	1972	Kerala	The convener of the Left Front	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Unknown	^[6]^[7]
Manzurul Hasan Khan	1972	Chitarpur Jharkhand	MLA	Communist Party of India	Strongly raised his voice against the Mahajani Pratha across Bihar and West Bengal.	^[8]
K B Sahay	1974	Hazaribag-Patna Highway in Sindoor, Bihar	Chief Minister of Bihar	Indian National Congress	Opposite Faction of Indian National Congress.
Lalit Narayan Mishra	1975	Samastipur, Bihar	Minister of Railways			^[9]
Indira Gandhi	1984	New Delhi	Prime Minister of India		Main article: Assassination of Indira Gandhi Beant Singh and Satwant Singh (aided by Kehar Singh), Sikh bodyguards, in protest against Operation Blue Star at the Golden Temple, Amritsar.	^[10]
Lalit Maken	1985	New Delhi	Member of Parliament,		Harjinder Singh Jinda, Sukhdev Singh Sukha and Ranjit Singh "Kuki" Gill	^[11]
Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga	1988	Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh	MLA		Devineni Nehru, Telugu Desam Party leader.	^[12]
Malkiat Singh Sidhu	1991	Moga, Punjab	Planning Minister of Punjab	Shiromani Akali Dal	Sikh militants	^[13]
Nagina Rai		Bihar	Cabinet Minister	Indian National Congress		^[14]^[15]
Rajiv Gandhi		Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu	Prime Minister of India		Main article: Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi Tamil Tigers in protest against sending Indian troops to Sri Lanka.	^[16]
Prem Kumar Sharma	1993	Bombay	MLA	Bharatiya Janata Party	D-Company	^[17]
Ramdas Nayak	1994	Bombay	MLA		D-Company	^[18]
Thakur Ji Pathak	1994	Jharkhand, Bihar	Activist, Politician	Janata party, Janata Dal	Political reasons/Mafia	^[19]
Beant Singh	1995	Chandigarh, Punjab	Chief Minister of Punjab	Indian National Congress	Sikh militants Dilawar Singh Babbar and Balwant Singh Rajoana.	^[20]
Brij Behari Prasad	1998	Patna, Bihar	Politician	Rashtriya Janata Dal	Surajbhan Singh, Shri Prakash Shukla, Vijay Kumar Shukla
Alimineti Madhava Reddy	2000	Ghatkesar, Telangana	Panchayatiraj, former Home Minister	Telugu Desam Party	Naxals	^[21]
Abdul Ghani Lone	2001	Jammu and Kashmir	Kashmiri separatist leader.	Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference	Kashmiri militants	^[22]
Phoolan Devi		New Delhi	Member of Parliament	Samajwadi Party	Sher Singh Rana	^[23]
Ragya Naik		Maddimadugu, Amrabad, Mahbubnagar	MLA, Devarakonda constituency	Indian National Congress	Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War	^[24]
Haren Pandya	2003	Ahmedabad	Home Minister Gujarat	Bharatiya Janata Party		^[25]
Krishnanand Rai	2005	Baswania, Uttar Pradesh	MLA		Mukhtar Ansari and eight others (accused).	^[26]
Paritala Ravindra		Ananthapur, Andhra Pradesh	MLA	Telugu Desam Party	Faction rival Maddelacheruvu Suri	^[27]
Rajo Singh	2005	Sheikhpura, Bihar	MLA	Indian National Congress	Ashok Mahto gang
Pramod Mahajan	2006	Mumbai	Former Cabinet Minister	Bharatiya Janata Party	Pravin Mahajan (brother) for personal reasons.	^[28]
Madan Tamang	2010	Darjeeling, West Bengal	President, Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League	Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League		^[29]
T. P. Chandrasekharan	2012	Kerala	Revolutionary Marxist	Revolutionary Marxist Party	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	^[30]
Mahendra Karma	2013	Sukma, Chhattisgarh	Leader of the Opposition	Indian National Congress	Main article: 2013 Naxal attack in Darbha valley Communist Party of India (Maoist) insurgents
Nand Kumar Patel			Home Minister			^[31]
Vidya Charan Shukla			Former Minister of External Affairs
Dilip Sarkar	2013	West Bengal	Ex-MLA	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	All India Trinamool Congress members.	^[32]
Govind Pansare	2015	Maharashtra	Politician	Communist Party of India
Kidari Sarveswara Rao	2018	Araku Valley, Andhra Pradesh	MLA	Telugu Desam Party	Naxals	^[33]
Siveri Soma			Ex MLA
Kamlesh Tiwari	2019	Uttar Pradesh	Politician	Hindu Samaj Party	Blasphemy against Muhammad	^[34]
Sidhu Moosewala	2022	Punjab	Politician	Indian National Congress	Political reasons/Gang rivalries	^[35]
Naba Das	2023	Odisha	State Health Minister and MLA	Biju Janata Dal		Shot by his former personal security officer^[36]

See also

• List of assassinations in Asia#India
• List of assassination attempts on prime ministers of India

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