Round 2: Tossup 17

This leader lost an election to a rival who called for a “total revolution” as the leader of the JP Movement. This non-Soviet leader issued a “declaration of state socialism” and three Five-Year Plans. In response (-5[1])to an (-5[1])action of this leader, a (15[1])flight departing Toronto was bombed by the Babbar Khalsa. Pokhran hosted (15[1])a nuclear test administered by this leader, (15[1])Operation (*) Smiling (10[1])Buddha. (10[1])The Khalistan movement targeted this leader after she launched Operation Blue Star against the Golden Temple. Satwant and Beant Singh, two of this leader’s guards, assassinated her in 1984. For 10 points, name this daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the only female prime minister of India. ■END■

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