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Learn about the suicide bombing that killed former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and 14 others in Sriperumbudur in 1991. Find out the motives, perpetrators, victims, and controversies of the attack.
On 31 October 1984, the prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi's mother, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards, which led to violent riots against Sikhs. [ 30 ] Sources estimate the number of Sikh deaths to be between 8,000 and 17,000. [ 31 ]
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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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
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Jun 15, 1991 · A detailed account of the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. The trade-off with Rajiv Gandhi's life was made the moment the last clasp on the belt was fastened. The human bomb has taken a toll this country, and indeed history, will never be able to forget.
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.
