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 the Prime Minister of the country from 15 August 1947 to 27 May 1964. Before this, he was also the head of the interim government of the country from 2 September 1946 to 15 August 1947. Nehru went to jail several times during the freedom movement, but do you know that attempts were made to assassinate him several times while he was the Prime Minister? Come, let us know in detail when the conspiracy to assassinate Nehru was hatched.
The first attempt was made in 1947 and the second attempt was made in 1948.
Jawaharlal Nehru The first assassination attempt 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 falls in today’s Pakistan. News of a second attempt to assassinate Nehru came in July 1948. The police then caught three people going to Delhi with the intention of assassinating Nehru from a Dharamshala in Lakhisarai, Bihar. 2 pistols, 2 revolvers, rifle and country-made bombs were recovered from them. His conspiracy was revealed to the police by his fourth associate.
There were several attempts on the life of Jawaharlal Nehru.
Was a conspiracy to blow up a train hatched in 1953?
In 1953 too, an attempt was allegedly made on Nehru’s life but the conspirators were not successful. According to reports of the time, some people had then 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 thought to be a bomb was actually some ‘firecrackers’ and the attackers’ intention was to create a sensation with the explosion of the firecrackers. Apart from this, a conspiracy to blow up the track was also hatched in 1961.
There was an attack with knives in 1955 and stones in 1956.
In 1955, a rickshaw puller attacked Nehru with a knife with the intention of killing him. According to newspaper reports at that time, a 6-inch knife was recovered from the 32-year-old rickshaw puller. The attacker had jumped on Nehru’s car but Nehru had pushed him back in time. At the same time, in 1956, the police had said that the conspiracy to assassinate Nehru in Mumbai was foiled. Police said that hundreds of people in the crowd had planned to attack Nehru with stones while he was giving a speech from the stage. The police had also arrested hundreds of people in this case.
