India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru playing with a tiger cub.
New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India. He played an important role in the country’s freedom movement. Nehru was Prime Minister of the country from August 15, 1947 to May 27, 1964. Previously, he was also the head of the country’s caretaker government from September 2, 1946 to August 15, 1947. Nehru went to jail several times during the independence movement, but did you know that there were attempts to assassinate him several times while he was Prime Minister? Come, tell us in detail when the conspiracy to assassinate Nehru was hatched.
The first attempt was made in 1947 and the second in 1948.
The first attempt to assassinate Jawaharlal Nehru took place in 1947. At that time the country was not divided and he was the head of the interim government. This attempt to assassinate Nehru took place while he was traveling by car in the North West Frontier Province. This area is located in present-day Pakistan. In July 1948 came news of a second attempt to assassinate Nehru. Police then nabbed three people heading to Delhi with the intention of assassinating Nehru from a Dharamshala in Lakhisarai, Bihar. 2 pistols, 2 revolvers, a rifle and peasant-made bombs were recovered from them. His conspiracy was revealed to the police by his fourth partner.
There were several attempts on Jawaharlal Nehru’s life.
Was a conspiracy to blow up a train hatched in 1953?
Also in 1953 there was supposedly an attempt on Nehru’s life, but the plotters were unsuccessful. According to contemporary reports, some people had conspired to blow up the Bombay-Amritsar express in which Nehru was travelling. However, the conspiracy failed when the police caught two people sitting near the railway tracks in Kalyan. It was later revealed that what was believed to be a bomb were actually ‘firecrackers’ and the attackers’ intention was to create a sensation by exploding the firecrackers. Apart from this, a conspiracy to blow up the runway was also hatched in 1961.
There was an attack with knives in 1955 and stones in 1956.
In 1955, a rickshaw driver attacked Nehru with a knife with the intention of killing him. According to newspaper reports at the time, a 6-inch knife was recovered from the 32-year-old rickshaw driver. The attacker jumped on Nehru’s car, but Nehru pushed him back in time. At the same time, in 1956, the police claimed that the conspiracy to assassinate Nehru in Mumbai had been foiled. Police said hundreds of people in the crowd had planned to attack Nehru with stones while he was delivering a speech from the stage. Police also arrested hundreds of people in this case.
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