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The assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India, occurred as a result of a suicide bombing in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu, India on 21 May 1991. [2] At least 14 others, in addition to Gandhi and the assassin, were killed. [3]
Prime Minister of India. Rajiv Gandhi was in West Bengal on 31 October 1984 when his mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, to avenge the military attack on the Golden Temple during Operation Blue Star.
The former Indian prime minister was killed by a suicide bomber while campaigning for the Congress Party in Tamil Nadu. He was the last of the Nehru dynasty that had led India since independence and was blamed for sending troops to Sri Lanka.
Nov 11, 2022 · Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on the night of May 21, 1991, at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu by a woman suicide bomber at a poll rally. A look at who the convicts are, and how the Supreme Court ordered their release.
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Jul 15, 1991 · One month after the brutal assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, the crack special investigation team (SIT) has managed to edge considerably closer to unravelling the complex plot behind the shocking crime that stunned the nation.
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Jun 25, 2022 · A meticulous account of how a LTTE death squad murdered former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and the SIT’s deadly cat-and-mouse game that brought the killers to justice
May 21, 2017 · New Delhi, UPDATED: May 21, 2018 16:32 IST. In Short. Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on May 21, 1991. Sonia Gandhi received an unknown phone call from Chennai. Rajiv Gandhi had flown to Chennai without his personal security chief. In the two years before Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated, India had witnessed political instability.
