A number of political leaders together with Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to India’s former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on the event of his thirty first demise anniversary on Saturday.
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi remembered his father to be a “form man” who taught him and his sister Priyanka the “worth of forgiveness and empathy.” Rahul took to social media and wrote, “My father was a visionary chief whose insurance policies helped form trendy India. He was a compassionate & form man, and a beautiful father to me and Priyanka, who taught us the worth of forgiveness and empathy. I dearly miss him and fondly bear in mind the time we spent collectively.”
Different Senior Congress leaders together with Priyanka Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Sachin Pilot and P Chidambaram paid their tributes to Rajiv Gandhi earlier this morning at Vir Bhumi in Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi additionally took to Twitter and paid his tributes to Rajiv Gandhi.
On Could 21, 1991, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by Dhanu/Thenmozhi Rajarathinaman, a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide bomber, whereas he was on a political marketing campaign in Tamil Nadu’s Sriperumbudur. Together with Rajiv Gandhi, as many as 16 died because of the sucide bombing. In the identical yr, Gandhi posthumously acquired India’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.
Few days again, the Supreme Court docket ordered the discharge of A G Perarivalan, who was serving a life sentence and was in jail for over 30 years in connection to the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. Perarivalan, who was 19 years previous on the time of Gandhi’s assassination, was accused of being an confederate and shopping for the batteries that had been used within the bomb to kill Gandhi.
Earlier this yr in March, the apex court docket had granted bail to Perarivalan, who was arrested by the CBI again in 1991, a month after the demise of Gandhi. The SC verdict has now made means for the discharge of six different convicts within the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
