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Rajiv Gandhi Memorial path, the path that Gandhi took before being assassinated. Following his assassination, Rajiv Gandhi's mutilated body was airlifted to New Delhi . From the Indira Gandhi International Airport , his body was sent to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi for an autopsy, reconstruction and embalming.
The Rajiv Gandhi Memorial at Sriperumbudur marks the site of the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. There have been numerous assassination attempts on prime ministers of India . The prime minister is the executive head of the Union Government of India , and is usually the most powerful person in the country.
Rajiv Gandhi [1] (/ ˈ r ɑː dʒ iː v ˈ ɡ ɑː n d iː / ⓘ; Hindi pronunciation: [raːdʒiːʋ ɡaːndʱiː]; 20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) [2] [3] was an Indian politician who was the prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989.
Kalaivani Rajaratnam (26 July 1968 – 21 May 1991) was a prominent Sri Lankan Tamil militant associated with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Born in Kaithady Nunavil in the Jaffna Peninsula, she is notably recognized for her role as a suicide bomber in the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.
For a brief moment the light seemed to have gone out. Yet his teachings and the example of his life live on in the minds and hearts of millions of men and women. Yes, the light is still shining, and the heritage of Mahatma Gandhi speaks to us still. And today as a pilgrim of peace I have come here to pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi, hero of ...
A. G. Perarivalan (born 30 July 1971) is a former convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.He was on life imprisonment along with Murugan and Santhan who were other two convicts of the same case.
The 1989 elections were held after the Lok Sabha elected in 1984 completed its five-year term. Although Rajiv Gandhi had won the 1984 elections by an unprecedented landslide (mainly due to an overwhelming outpour of popular grief for to his mother's assassination), by 1989 he was trying to fight off scandals that had marred his administration.
The video was distributed and played across all over Tamil Nadu. Rajiv Gandhi visited cyclone-hit areas in Tamil Nadu which also boosted the alliance. The sympathy wave created by Indira's assassination, M.G.R's illness and Rajiv Gandhi's charisma helped the alliance sweep the election.