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...Punjab to check terrorism in the troubled region, Gandhi dismissed the state's chief minister and imposed direct rule by the central government in New Delhi. This is the second time in four years that the federal administration has removed an elected government in Punjab in order to combat Sikh extremists...
...this is a startling change from the situation little more than two years ago, when Indians voted the Congress Party into office by a landslide. The vote was a show of confidence in Gandhi only seven weeks after his mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was assassinated by Sikh bodyguards. Gandhi cultivated an image as a young, honest politician who was determined to modernize the economy and clean up the Congress Party, whose members he said in 1985 "follow no principle of public morality." Today, none of those goals has been fulfilled, and Gandhi seems to have lost his golden electioneering...
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...
Gurkha soldiers, renowned as some of the world's most valiant fighters, have been deployed in recent years to quell disorders arising from militant Sikh demands for an independent state. Today Sikh soldiers patrol Darjeeling to prevent further Gurkha agitation...
...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...