Terrorism has affected politics India since its conception , be it the terrorism supported from Pakistan or the internal guerrilla groups such as Naxalites . In 1991 the former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated during an election campaign . The suicide bomber was later linked to the Sri Lankan terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam , as it was later revealed the killing was an act of vengeance for Rajiv Gandhi sending troops in Sri Lanka against them in 1987
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