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The PM was attacked arsenic she walked location from her bureau connected the compound.
Indira Gandhi is dead. She was assassinated astatine her residence connected October 31. Two of her information guards, a sub-inspector and constable of the Delhi Police, gunned down the 66-year-old person who has led the federation for implicit 15 years. The PM was attacked arsenic she walked location from her bureau connected the compound.
Rajiv Sworn In As PM
Rajiv Gandhi was sworn successful arsenic the Prime Minister by President Zail Singh, on with a four-member interim Cabinet astatine 6:55 p.m. connected October 31. The swearing-in ceremonial astatine the Ashoka Hall of the Rashtrapati Bhavan was attended by Vice President R Venkataraman, astir of the members of the erstwhile furniture and respective main ministers and governors. Gloom marked the ceremony.
Sikhs Issue Statement
In a statement, respective salient Sikhs condemned the assassination of the Prime Minister: “No society, slightest of each a nine similar ours with its agelong traditions of spiritualism, assistance and humanism, tin let achromatic deeds of murderous folly to destruct its civilised fabric. We condemn successful unequivocal presumption the dastardly effort connected the beingness of the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to which she tragically fell victim. We see specified an act, and what it is apt to trigger off, a sedate menace to the country’s integrity and unity.”
Sikhs Attacked
The authorities precocious connected October 31 alerted the Army and called retired the Border Security Force and the Central Reserve Police Force to power the wide rioting and arson successful parts of the Capital pursuing the assassination of Indira Gandhi. The main targets of the rioting mobs were Sikhs. At slightest 30 Sikhs were admitted to assorted hospitals successful the city.
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