The Assassination of Beant Singh, August 1995
A human bomb in police uniform killed the chief minister and sixteen others at the Chandigarh secretariat on August 31, 1995. The Babbar Khalsa operation, the Rajoana case that ran three decades, and why the bomb changed nothing.
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An unglamorous Congress veteran took a fraction of a mandate in 1992, gave the endgame its political cover, presided over the militancy's collapse and the campaign's costs alike, and predicted accurately what the signature would cost him.
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