Indira Gandhi was assassinated on October 31, 1984, by two of her Sikh bodyguards in retaliation for Operation Blue Star. The operation, which was ordered by her government in June 1984, involved the Indian Army entering the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the Sikhs’ holiest shrine, to remove militant Sikh separatists led by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. The operation caused damage to parts of the temple and angered many in the Sikh community.
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