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The first Indian Prime Minister to have been assassinated is:

  1. A
    Indira Gandhi
  2. B
    Morarji Desai
  3. C
    Lal Bahadur Shastri
  4. D
    Jawaharlal Nehru

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Indira Gandhi was the first Indian Prime Minister to be assassinated. She was assassinated by her bodyguards on October 31, 1984. Rajiv Gandhi was the second Prime Minister to be assassinated (in 1991, though he was an ex-Prime Minister at that exact time).

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The first Indian Prime Minister to have been assassinated is:
A
Indira Gandhi
B
Morarji Desai
C
Lal Bahadur Shastri
D
Jawaharlal Nehru

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