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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.
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...
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.
Jul 15, 1991 · Determined to prevent Rajiv Gandhi from returning to power fearing the reinduction of the IPKF, the LTTE supremo Pirabhakaran ordered the killing of Rajiv at a meeting held in Jaffna in October 1990. An exclusive investigation on the people involved and how the plot was hatched and executed.
The assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India, occurred on May 21, 1991, in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, during an election campaign event.
Jun 15, 1991 · Mrs Gandhi and Rajiv's flirtation and subsequent involvement with the Tamil separatist movement in Sri Lanka has proven a fatal one. It saw the arming and training of Eelam fighters give way to an agreement with the Government of Sri Lanka which had the Indian Peace Keeping Force locked in a bloody combat with the Tamil Tigers.
May 21, 2018 · Rajiv Gandhi, India's sixth Prime Minister, was assassinated on 21 May 1991 at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu. An LTTE activist named Thenmozhi Rajaratnam detonated an RDX-laden suicide belt...
Aug 26, 2011 · 26 August 2011. Rajiv Gandhi was killed as he addressed an election rally in southern India in 1991. Three men convicted in connection with the 1991 assassination of former Indian Prime...
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.
