Assassination
As Minister of Railways, he visited Samastipur on 2 January 1975 to declare open Samastipur-Muzaffarpur broad gauge railway line. A bomb explosion on the dais, seriously injured him. He was rushed to the railway hospital at Danapur where he died next day. He was assassinated in Bihar for which he did so much of work as Railway Minister. In 1974, during the 5th Lok Sabha, a license scandal was unearthed during question hour. A memorandum allegedly signed by 21 MPs were submitted by traders of Pondicherry to the Union Commerce Ministry to grant licenses for importing various items. The signatures were forged on the behest of Indira Gandhi's key aide, Lalit Narain Mishra.
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