In 26 yrs, Punjab suffered most terror attacks, blasts
State saw 31incidents, followed by Jammu and Kashmir with 27 from 1989 till 2015.
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A soldier takes cover during the Gurdaspur terror attacklast year. Archive photo
AS MANY as 2,186 people were killed and 6,074 injured in major terrorist attacks and bomb blasts in India from 1989 till 2015, as per the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
In its report released recently, MHA states that Punjab witnessed maximum incidents of major terror attacks and blasts — 31 — followed by 27 in Jammu and Kashmir in the last 26 years.
Whereas the financial capital of the country, Mumbai, saw eight such terror attacks, including serial bomb blasts, and suffered maximum number of 702 fatal casualties and 2,253 injured.
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Since 1989, the highest number of 257 deaths and 713 injuries were reported when the city of Mumbai was rocked by a series of bomb blasts within a span of two and half hours on March 12, 1993.
Though the MHA report has taken into consideration the data from August 1989 onwards, it states that a total 445 people were killed in Punjab and 401 injured, most of them during the period of militancy in the state. The report reveals that a total of 272 persons lost their lives and 459 sustained injuries during terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir during this period.
VIPs who lost their lives in these terrorist attacks include then Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh who was attacked by a human bomb with seven kilogram of RDX outside Punjab Secretariat at Chandigarh on August 31, 1995; former finance minister of Punjab, Balwant Singh, shot dead on July 10, 1990, at Chandigarh by suspected extremists of Khalistan Liberation Force(KLF) outfit.
Darshan Singh Kaypee, former Congress minister in Punjab, was shot dead by extremists belonging to Khalistan Commando Force (Panjwar faction) on October 13, 1992, in Jalandhar. On July 6, 1998, Mohinder Singh, Shiromani Akali Dal MLA was killed by Sikh extremists in his house at Gurdaspur. Sher Singh, president of All India Youth Akali Dal, was killed by two gunmen of KLF at Aroorgarh on January 15, 1992. Inderjit Singh, general secretary of Congress(I) from Punjab was killed by two Babbar Khalsa International terrorist group on September 9, 1992. Deputy Inspector General of Punjab Police Ajit Singh was killed in an encounter with Sikh militants belonging to BTKFK(S) group in Tarn Taran on May 7, 1991.
There have also been many failed terrorist attacks on VIPs. In an attack on August 20, 1992, on the convoy of then Chief Minister of Punjab Darbara Singh by two extremists of Khalistan Commando Force by hand grenades at Rahon, Singh escaped unhurt. There was also an attack on Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu at Thirumala on October 1, 2003; a fidayeen attack on residence of then Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on October 17, 2003; failed terror attack on Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mangat Ram Sharma on July 19, 2004; unsuccessful attack on former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah in Anantnag on October 24, 2004.
Also, M S Bitta, then president of Youth Congress and now president of All India Anti-Terrorist Front, escaped unhurt during an attack on him on September 11, 1993, in front of Congress office in New Delhi.
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