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Rajiv Gandhi [a] (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) [1] [2] [3] was an Indian politician who was the prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the assassination of his mother, then–prime minister Indira Gandhi, to become at the age of 40 the youngest Indian prime minister.
Feroze Jehangir Gandhi (born Feroze Jehangir Gandhi; 12 September 1912 – 8 September 1960) was an Indian freedom fighter, politician and journalist. He served as a member of the provincial parliament between 1950 and 1952, and later a member of the Lok Sabha , the Lower house of Indian parliament.
Indira Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajiv Gandhi, and Sanjay Gandhi Portrait of Feroze and Indira Gandhi. She married Feroze Gandhi at the age of 25, in 1942. Their marriage lasted 18 years until he died of a heart attack in 1960. [254] [255] They had two sons—Rajiv and Sanjay. Initially, her younger son Sanjay had been her chosen heir, but ...
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.
(from left to right) Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi in 1969. Gandhi was born in New Delhi, on 14 December 1946, as the younger son of Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi. Like his elder brother Rajiv, Gandhi was educated at St. Columba's School, Delhi, Welham Boys' School, Dehra Dun and then at the Doon School, Dehra Dun.
Congress party lawmaker Priyanka Gandhi, who is the daughter of Sonia and Rajiv Gandhi, said Singh was "genuinely egalitarian, wise, strong-willed and courageous until the end".
Sonia is the widow of Rajiv Gandhi, elder son of Indira Gandhi. She has two children, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi , who both serve as Members of Parliament in the Lok Sabha. In August 2011, she underwent successful surgery for cervical cancer [ 87 ] in the United States at Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York. [ 88 ]
Bachchan's family were very close to the Nehru-Gandhi family of politicians. When Sonia Gandhi first came to India from Italy before her marriage, Bachchan had received her at the Palam International Airport on 13 January 1968. She spent 48 days at Bachchan's house with his parents before her wedding to Rajiv. [41]