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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. At least 14 others, in addition to Gandhi and the assassin, were killed. [3]
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.
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.
While campaigning for the elections, he was assassinated by a suicide bomber from the LTTE. His widow Sonia became the president of the Congress party in 1998 and led the party to victory in the 2004 and 2009 parliamentary elections.
Rajiv Gandhi, the 46-year-old former Indian prime minister, has been assassinated. He was campaigning for the Congress Party on the second day of voting in the world's largest democratic election...
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. The Prime Minister’s ...
Nov 30, 1999 · Rajiv Gandhi's assassination on May 21, 1991, on the eve of the Lok Sabha election that he fought with Jayalalithaa as an ally, remains India's most sensational political murder. The idea was born in the mind of the battle-scarred Tamil Tigers' leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, who emerged from the jungles of Sri Lanka in early 1990.
May 21, 2017 · 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.
Nov 11, 2022 · India’s top court on Friday ordered the release of six people convicted of killing the country’s former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, 31 years after their imprisonment.
May 22, 1991 · But his brother's death in 1980 and his mother's assassination in 1984 forced Rajiv Gandhi, the untested and unheralded heir, to gather up the Gandhi mantle.
