POLITICIANS KILLED IN ROAD ACCIDENTS IN

S. Name Background Case No 2015

NOTE: In 2015, we have identified under-mentioned 3 names but they since they do not match the high profile status of the existing list, we have excluded them: 1. Asit Sarkar, Local BJP Leader, died on May 14, 2015 - In a hit and run accident after a biker hit him from behind at Belakoba district in West Bengal 2. Vurelli Lakshma, leader, TRS, died on March 2, 2015 when a speeding bus rammed into the car killing the TRS leader on the spot at Mutyampeta of Dandepalli in Adibabad district 3. Chandramouli and Venkata Subbaiah, leader TDP, died on March 2, 2015 when a speeding bus rammed into the car killing the TRS leader on the spot at Mutyampeta of Dandepalli in Adibabad district

2014

Died on June 23, 2014 when his car hit a truck coming in opposite 1 Vemireddy Vijayender Reddy Co-Convener, Loksatta Party Telagana direction near Bata Singaram village on the Hyderabad-Vijaywada Highway

Senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata 2 Gopinath Munde Party (BJP) and Union Minister of Rural Died on June 3, 2014 in a road accident in Development Senior YSR leader and former 3 Shobha Nagi Reddy Died on April 24, 2014 in a road accident in Andhra Pradesh MLA, Andhra Pradesh 2013 Died in November 4, 2013 in a road accident in Meerut. he accident 4 Samarpal Singh BJP leader, former MLA, occurred near Chota Hassanpur in Meerut when his car rammed into a truck

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Died on August 15, 2013 in a road accident when his vehicle rammed into Vice President of , 5 S. M. Laljan Basha the divider at Narkatpalli near Nalgonda on the Vijayawada Hyderabad Member of the National Highway

2012 Senior TDP leader and Union Rural Died on November 2, 2012 in a road accident in his native district 6 K. Yerran Naidu Development minister Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh 2011

BJP Andhra Pradesh State Died in a road accident on February 19, 2011 near Kadthal village of 7 Vanam Jhansi spokesperson Amangal mandal in the district on Hyderabad-Srisailam road

2010

Died battling injuries which he suffered in a road accident when he was on Member of the 14th , CPI 8 Varkala V. Radhakrishnan his regular morning walk on 22 April, 2010. He was knocked down by a (M), Kerala truck from behind.

2009 National President and Founder of 9 Dr. Sone Lal Patel Died in a road accident in Kanpur on Oct 17, 2009

Punjab Cooperation Minister and He was injured in a road accident near Kharar on March 29, 2009 and died 10 Capt. Kanwaljit Singh Shiromani 's General Secretary at PGIMER Chandigarh on the same day

2008 Member of Parliament from the Died on December 10, 2008. He was killed in a road accident near Palwal 11 Munawwar Hasan Muzaffarnagar constituency in Uttar in Haryana Pradesh, 2007 Senior Vice-President of the Bharatiya Died on June 30, 2007, when his car collided with a truck near Jonaicha 12 Sahib Singh Verma and Chief Minister of khurd, Shahajahanpur on the -Delhi highway Delhi

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2004 Died on June 2, 2004 in a road accident after his car, slammed into an Member of Rajya Sabha, Senior leader 13 Dr. Shrikant Jichkar oncoming bus at Dhamana Shivar on National Highway 6, about 40 of the Congress Party in kilometres west of Nagpur 2000 A senior Congress Leader and a 14 Rajesh Pilot Died on June 11, 2000 in a car accident near Jaipur minister in the 1994 Seventh President of India, serving 15 Gyani Zail Singh Died on December 25, 1994 due to injuries after a car accident. from 1982 to 1987

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