Rajiv Gandhi 31st death anniversary: On May 21, 31 years ago today, former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in Tamil Nadu, South India. Today the whole country including the Congress party is remembering him. His son Rahul Gandhi is remembering his father.
On the 31st death anniversary of his father, Congress leader and MP from Wayanad, Kerala, Rahul Gandhi remembered his father by tweeting. Rahul Gandhi wrote that his father was a visionary leader whose policies helped to shape modern India. According to Rahul Gandhi, he was a kind and generous person. He was a wonderful father to both me and Priyanka, who taught us the value of forgiveness and empathy. I miss him so much….
Rajiv Gandhi, the youngest Prime Minister of India, was assassinated in a terrorist attack on 21 May 1991. But five years before that, the US intelligence agency CIA in a report had expressed the possibility of an attack on him, a conspiracy to murder. After this Rajiv also served as the Prime Minister till 1989. Rajiv Gandhi, who became the Prime Minister at the age of 40, was the youngest Prime Minister of India and perhaps one of the youngest politicians in the world who led the government.
This incident of 1991 shook the whole country. Angered by the sending of peace forces by LTTE militants to Sri Lanka, Tamil rebels carried out a suicide attack on Rajiv Gandhi in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu.
