Assassination of Indira Gandhi

1. School of media and communication
ASSASSINATION OF
INDIRA GANDHI
VIJENDRA PRATAP SINGH BISEN
BJMC (2014-17)

2. The facts and events in this presentation does not reflect any
personal viewpoints. This presentation is not meant to hurt or
dishonour any religion or followers of public figures
mentioned in it.

3. • Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
 The third Prime Minister of India and a central figure
of the Indian National Congress party. Gandhi, who
served from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980
until her assassination in 1984, is the second-longest
serving Prime Minister of India and the only woman
to hold the office.
• Only child of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru. She served as the Chief of Staff of her father's
highly centralised administration between 1947 and
1964 and came to wield considerable unofficial
influence in government.
• Indira Gandhi was known for her political
ruthlessness and unprecedented centralisation of
power.
[14 January 1980 – 31 October
1984]

4. Beant Singh
6 January 1959 – 31 October 1984), born in Jaitu in
the Faridkot district of Punjab (India), was a bodyguard
of Indira Gandhi who took part in her assassination in
1984. He was shot dead by the Prime Minister's other
bodyguards after he killed her.
Satwant Singh Randhawa
(1962–1989) was a Sikh bodyguard to the Prime
Minister of India Indira Gandhi, who on 31 October
1984 assassinated Indira Gandhi at her residence along
with another bodyguard, Beant Singh.He was from
amritsar and played wrestling in hangman akahara
(club) in new Delhi.

5. On 24 October 1984, Beant Singh and Satwant Singh, both
part of the Indian elite forces, who served as bodyguards for
the Prime-minister, took Sikh Baptism (Amrit) at a
Gurdwara in Delhi.
Satwant Singh always worked in the late shifts and Beant
Singh worked in the early morning shifts in prime minister's
security. On 31 October, Satwant Singh faked a stomach bug,
and swapped duties with another guard so that they could
work together to execute their plan.
And in the same morning, at 09:00 of 31 October 1984 as
Indira Gandhi walked from her house to her office at
Safardajung Road, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh
assassinated her by firing thirty three bullets into her chest
and abdomen. Initially Beant Singh drew a .38-calibre
revolver and fired three shots into Indira Gandhi's abdomen.

6. As she fell to the ground, Satwant Singh fired all 30 rounds
from his Sten submachine gun into her body. They both
shouted Sikh religious slogan of "Bole So Nihal, Sat Sri
Akal!!" during the assassination.
They placed their weapons on the floor afterwards while
saying "We have done what we needed to, now you can do
what you have to."They were apprehended and taken to
a guardhouse where a struggle ensued in which Satwant
Singh allegedly grabbed the commando's handgun, other
commandos started fire. Beant Singh died there from the
gunshot wounds sustained in the room while Satwant Singh
was seriously injured and was taken to a hospital on the
arrival of a senior security officer.
Satwant Singh was later sentenced to death, along with Kehar
Singh the uncle of Beant Singh who had given counsel to his
nephew.

7. ARNAIL SINGH BHINDRANWALE was a leader whom the
congress party used to get Sikh votes and to teach a lesson to its
rival Shiromani Akali Dal, the major Sikh party . Bhindranwale
also campaigned for Congress candidates in many elections. But
gradually he became more popular than Congress leaders.
He also started using violence and started separatist movement
called Khalistan. He used the Golden Temple for separatists
purposes. Now the same congress who once nurtured him
wanted him dead.
Indira Gandhi ordered a military attack on the Golden
Temple (Amritsar-in Punjab India)- this temple is sacred to
the Sikh's. The attack was ordered to remove Sikh
separatists that where collecting weapons inside the temple
(called Operation Blue Star). Her assassination was
executed to avenge this act by two of her bodyguards-who
were Sikh