Word: punjab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, so resounding were the setbacks that the victory by Gandhi's party, as the junior partner of a coalition, in the state of Jammu and Kashmir offered little consolation. In the past 18 months the Congress Party has lost state elections in Punjab, Assam and Mizoram. Gandhi appeared willing to live with these defeats because they temporarily quieted rebellious local ethnic and religious parties. There were, however, no such considerations in Kerala and West Bengal. Even more devastating, the loss of Kerala marked the first time Gandhi's party was out of power in all four south Indian states...
...buildup had begun last fall when India launched Operation Brass Tacks, a war game that took place along the frontier and involved 180,000 troops. This alarmed Pakistan, which responded by deploying two armored divisions near India's Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir states. Move and countermove began an escalation that threatened to drift into...
Police later identified the assailant as Karamjit Singh, 26, a resident of Punjab state, where Sikh terrorists are agitating for independence. While Singh is a Sikh who had shaved his beard and cut his hair to disguise his identity, authorities concluded that the crude assassination try was a lone terrorist act rather than part of an organized Sikh conspiracy. The day after the attempt on Rajiv Gandhi's life, Sikh radicals in Punjab shot and slightly wounded J.F. Ribeiro, director general of the state police force...
...shooting was the latest Sikh reprisal for the Indian army's 1984 attack on Punjab's Golden Temple, the Sikhs' holiest shrine, which left more than 600 dead. Vaidya was then army Chief of Staff. Those killed in retaliation include Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who was gunned down in 1984 by her own Sikh bodyguards...
...isolated logging road on Vancouver Island last week, he was shot and badly wounded by four men in another vehicle. Police, who later arrested four Canadian Sikhs, were treating the case as an international incident. The reason: Sidhu, 56, is the planning minister of the Indian state of Punjab and a party member of the moderate Akali Dal, which is trying to root out Sikh terrorism...