A. 1980
B. 1982
C. 1984
D. 1986
Submitted by: Areesha Khan
Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, was assassinated on October 31, 1984, by her Sikh bodyguards. Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star by the Indian Army between 1 and 8 June 1984 on the orders of Gandhi.
Operation Bluestar was an Indian Army operation carried out in June 1984 in the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, to flush out militants who were led by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, a one-time leader of the Sikh seminary Damdami Taksal and a key figure in the growing separatist Khalistan movement at the time.
Correct Answer: 1984 ✔
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