Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi
On May 21, , 31 years ago, India suffered a massive political tragedy when Congress leader Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated during a suicide bombing in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu. Years later, the six accused, who were convicted of assassinating Gandhi, have now been released.
While all the six convicts Nalini, PR Ravichandran, Robert Pias, Suthendraraja, Jaykumar and Sriharan walk free out of the prison, here’s a look back at what happened on the fateful day of May
Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), an armed Tamil group in Sri Lanka that was waging a war against the island nation's government.
Back in May , Gandhi was busy in election campaign with G.K. Moopanar in the southern states of India. On 21 May, after campaigning in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, his next stop was Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu.
Two hours after he arrived in Madras (now Chennai), Gandhi was driven by motorcade in a white Ambassador car to Sriperumbudur. During his drive, he was stopping along the way at a few other election campaigning venues.
Finally, when Gandhi reached a campaign rally in Sriperumbudur, he l
Bomb kills India's former leader Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi, the 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 when a powerful bomb, hidden in a basket of flowers, exploded killing him instantly.
At least 14 other people were also killed in the attack in the town of Sriperumbudur, about 30 miles from Madras, the capital of the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
No-one has admitted carrying out the murder but it is being blamed on Mr Gandhi's arch enemies, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a violent guerrilla group fighting for a separate homeland for Tamils on the island of Sri Lanka.
End of a dynasty
Rajiv Gandhi's death has shocked the world and marks the end of the Nehru dynasty that had led India for all but five years since independence from Britain.
After his brother Sanjay was killed in an air crash in , he gave up his job as an airline pilot and was elected to Sanjay's parliamentary seat.
He became prime minister after his mother, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated by her own Sikh bodyguards in
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