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 action of this leader, a flight departing Toronto was bombed by the Babbar Khalsa. Pokhran hosted (-5[1])a nuclear test (15[1])administered by this leader, Operation (*) Smiling Buddha. The (-5[1])Khalistan movement targeted this leader after she launched Operation Blue Star (10[1])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 (10[1])prime minister of India. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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