After the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Indira_Gandhi" id="mwAcw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Assassination of Indira Gandhi">assassination of Indira Gandhi</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_India" id="mwAc0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Prime Minister of India">Prime Minister of India</a> on 31 October 1984, by two of her Sikh bodyguards, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_anti-Sikh_riots" id="mwAc4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1984 anti-Sikh riots">anti-Sikh riots</a> erupt.